Quotations similar to PROACTIVE - AWARENESS, ACTION
Also see PROACTIVE AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Ask yourself this daily question: 'How would the person I'd like to be do the things I'm about to do? - Jim Cathcart
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey
Don’t let weeds grow around your dreams. - H Jackson Brown, Jr
Don't find fault. Find a remedy. - Henry Ford
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't take 'no' as an answer from someone who doesn't have the authority to say 'yes'. - Unknown
Don't think it, ink it. - Mark Victor Hansen
Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself. - Seth Godin
Don't water your weeds. - Harvey Mackay
Every solution has a problem. - Steve Chandler
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Thomas Edison
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. - Denis Waitley
Go with the flow, but take paddles! – Che Garman
I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action. - Wes Fessler
I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who carries a raincoat. - Harold Wilson
It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things. - Leonardo da Vinci
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. - Abraham Lincoln
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for. - Florence Scovel Shinn
If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident. - Robert Ringer
If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You consciously create your own. - Stephen Covey
If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. - Will Smith
It is easier to stay out that get out. - Mark Twain
It is far better to be proactive than reactive. - Che Garman
It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there. - Bob Hope
Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. - Ovid
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles F Kettering
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. - Lorraine Hansberry
Never promise more than you can perform. - Publilius Syrus
Nothing ever happens in your life unless you create the space for it to happen in. - James McCay
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. - Henry Moore
Over prepare, then go with the flow. - Regina Brett
People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Elinor Smith
Some people want it to happen, some people wish it could happen, others make it happen. - Michael Jordan
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. - Gloria Steinem
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. - James Yorke
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. - George Bernard Shaw
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. - David Searles
The will to win is not as important as the will to prepare to win. - Bobby Knight
There is a time to zig and a time to zag. - Jonathan Fry
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. - Denis Waitley
Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for? - Eric Allenbaugh
