Top 25 Proactive Rather Than Reactive Quotes
#1. You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
Edmund S. Muskie
#2. Don't be carried away by the current of the situation. Focus on the essentials, take action on the best alternative are the ways of shifting from reactive to proactive mindset.
Amit Ray
#3. I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#4. In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.
Craig Ferguson
#6. You never know what way life goes. Some of it makes no sense at all.
Colm Toibin
#7. He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.
David Gower
#8. Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.
Michael Spiller
#9. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#11. Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.
Sherene McHenry
#12. We feel our lives are worth living after we discover something worth dying for.
Jeffrey Fry
#13. In the face of great challenges, you can choose to live reactively as a victim, or choose to proactively take control, with awareness and accountability.
Isaac Lidsky
#14. Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
Brian Tracy
#15. I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.
Cary Elwes
#16. You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.
Michael Hyatt
#17. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
Norman Foster
#18. Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavourless.
David Mitchell
#19. While reactive boundaries signal something that needs to be dealt with, proactive boundaries fix something that is broken.
Henry Cloud
#20. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
Stephen R. Covey
#21. Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
Stephen Covey
#22. IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode.
Pearl Zhu
#23. We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.
Tatiana Maslany
#24. I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager ...
Larry Wall
#25. If you want to be an action person be proactive rather than reactive ...
Stephen Richards
