Quotes About Proactivity

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

The best person to get something done is a busy person

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

if you are aware of a problem, it's your responsibility to make a concerted effort to create a positive change. Quit pointing your finger and making excuses, and try being a catalyst by demonstrating and initiating the appropriate behavior. Determine not to be a reactor but an initiator.

The solution is to develop a bias for action. Don't think, Can I? Instead think, How can I?

When we complain we are saying we do not have the power to make a difference in the situation and we make ourselves small... we become part of the problem instead of the solution! Take action to make the situation better & live bigger!

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

I'm not sitting around, waiting for something to run across the Internet so I can go, 'Oh, that's what I'mma write about.' I just go around, live life, make music, and it's epic.

The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action.

people only complain about things they can do something about.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

Henry Flagler: "Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, "I'd like to do this, or that.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

If you see a problem, Theo, think of a way to fix it and do it now. Don't spend all your time making plans.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Nothing was more nauseating than people who constantly complained about their life, but did nothing about it.

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