Proactive Behavior Quotes

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

God helps those who help themselves.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.