Quotes About Action

Proactive people aren't pushy. They're smart, they're value driven, they read reality, and they know what's needed.

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? Question 2: What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?

We are what we repeatedly do.

Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world.

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

Taking initiative means] recognizing our responsibility to make things happen

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about.

Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant!

First, you are not being acted upon by other people or circumstances. You are proactively choosing what you determine to be the best alternative. You make your decision consciously and knowledgeably.

Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So

It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment

We react to urgent matters. Important matters that are not urgent require more initiative, more proactivity. We must act to seize opportunity, to make things happen. If we don't practice Habit 2, if we don't have a clear idea of what is important, of the results we desire in our lives, we are easily diverted into responding to the urgent.

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love

If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon.

love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon. It frees us from our dependence on circumstances and other people and is a worthy, liberating goal. But it is not the ultimate goal in effective living.

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so, we choose the attendant consequence. When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.

Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not do is really not to know.