Quotes About Proactivity

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

Don't just stand there; make something happen.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

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.

It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.

Why wait to be memorable?

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

But I've found that sitting around moaning about how sad it is gets no one anywhere. That's why I get involved.

But what if …?" "What happens when …?" "Don't we need to plan for …?" Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

Don't waste time on problems you don't have yet Do you really need to worry about scaling to 100,000 customers today if it will take you two years to get there?

Defensive companies can't think ahead; they can only think behind. They don't lead; they follow.

The right people are those who take the initiative to get things done, who make things happen and whom you come to count on for ideas for constant change and improvement.

You have to make your own chances.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

My policy is, why wait? If you're going to look back and laugh, you might as well start laughing.

But you can't sit around waiting for a mentor to find you. You have to search for them, and that may mean looking beyond your immediate department or area. Your

If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when? –Rabbi Hillel