Proactive Attitude Quotes

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I'm a goal-oriented person, and instead of focusing on the past, I'd rather focus on the future.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

The fear of losing makes you better because it stops you cruising.

The people who think it a shame when anything goes wrong—who rush to the conclusion that evil could or ought to have been prevented, are those who, in the long run, do most to make the world better.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.