Proactivity Quotes

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." "The future starts today, not tomorrow" "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." "When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it." "Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small." "Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way." "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." "One advantage — perhaps a somewhat subtle one — of a customer-driven focus is that it aids a certain type of proactivity. When we're at our best, we don't wait for external pressures. We are internally driven to improve our services, adding benefits and fe" "Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do." "The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."