Proactivity Quotes

"Great people do things before they’re ready" "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." "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." "You can complain about the direction of your life all you want, but until you sit in the driver’s seat and begin to drive yourself, you aren't going to get where you want to go!" "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" "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." "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." "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." "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."