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"Proactivity" Quotes

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

― Mahatma Gandhi

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

― Abraham Lincoln

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

― Abraham Lincoln

"Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way."

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

― Mother Teresa

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

"Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it."

― Sigmund Freud

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

― Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

― Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

― Leonardo da Vinci

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

― Leonardo da Vinci

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

― John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

― John F. Kennedy

"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."

― Barack Obama

"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"

"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!"