Quotes About Proactivity

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Asked about our sense that we are not safe in our own world, Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

There are four kinds of people in this world: •those who make things happen •those who watch things happen •those who wonder what happened •those who don't know that anything happened! I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

If you don't do something you will simply get overwhelmed by something happening.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

Svemu treba i?i u susret, ništa ne treba ?ekati. Ako ?ovek nije ni glup ni kukavica nije ni bespomo?an

Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

I'm no ambulance chaser. I always get there before the ambulance arrives.

Don't stay away. If you have a boss who doesn't reach out to you, or with whom you have uncomfortable interactions, you will have to reach out yourself.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

The greatest amongst you is the one who can spot a mistake and then act upon it immediately, without leaving it for tomorrow.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

Make a plan. Get moving. Get to work. Do something. Make a decision. If you don't, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do.

Successful, self-starting individuals seek responsibility. They take calculated risks; they don't make excuses to cover up their inactivity.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

We don't have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'