Quotes about Proactivity

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Victims don't want to be proactive about changing—they want to be proactive about making sure that the person who hurt them pays. And so we spend our energy telling our sad stories rather than taking responsibility for our behavior. Thus we open the door of our hearts and welcome in the Trojan horse of bitterness. And it stands there, a monument, a constant reminder of a debt someone has yet to pay. Somebody owes us.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.

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.

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

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

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.