Quotes about Proactive

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent.

The physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior physician. The physician who waits to treat people until after their health is lost is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until one's family is starving to begin to plant seeds in the garden.

Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem.

The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

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

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