Quotes About Proactivity

If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away "operating.

Without an action plan, the executive becomes a prisoner of events.

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.

I feel I don't face issues because I never seek work actively.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

Let me know about a problem as soon as you know about it.

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

Stop waiting for things to get better and do something to make it better.

We can't just wait for problems to be solved with time because it will not, instead we must take the right steps ourselves to solve them.

You can't always wait for the perfect time to do something. Sometimes you need to take step forward and make the time perfect by yourself.

Tomorrow is not certain, so make today count as best as you can, cause there's no excuse in being idleness, is a choice we have make for ourselves!

Have the courage to act instead of react.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.

I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

Happiness is something we create ourselves. To our eyes, the sun appears to rise in the east every day to create a brilliant morning for the earth. The sun, however, does not create the morning alone: the earth also creates it actively as it rotates every day. We shouldn't just wait for happiness, either. Happiness doesn't come when we wait for it: we make it ourselves.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Have a bias toward action – let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away

People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.