Quotes About Proactivity

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

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

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

Don't just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

He is a very positive captain he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

Always be the first to move; don't wait until the

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND

Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!