Quotes about Proactivity

The solution is to develop a bias for action. Don't think, Can I? Instead think, How can I?

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

if you are aware of a problem, it's your responsibility to make a concerted effort to create a positive change. Quit pointing your finger and making excuses, and try being a catalyst by demonstrating and initiating the appropriate behavior. Determine not to be a reactor but an initiator.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines? Are you parenting reactively or proactively? Do you have a spiritual growth plan? Are you working for a paycheck or stewarding your God-given gifts pursuing a God-ordained dream? Are you trying to break even spiritually by avoiding sin? Or are you going for broke by invading the darkness with the light and love of Jesus Christ?

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

The early bird gets the worm.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

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If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.