Quotes About Proactivity

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought. Obviously

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

In heaven's name, let us not wait for other people to come to us and call upon us to do great deeds. Let us instead be the first to summon the rest to a path of honor.

If an army is to win through to victory, it has to spend all its time helping itself or hurting its foe. Therefore, an army should never be idle.

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

People who create their own opportunities are more successful than people who expect opportunities to be created for them.

Sunday Adelaja

Nothing is going to work out unless you step up and make it happen.

The world's most successful people didn't wait for someone else to pick them, but instead, they picked themselves.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.