Top 100 Quotes About Proactive
#1. Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
Stephen R. Covey
#2. Be proactive; and ready to run if proactive backfires.
Jesse Petersen
#3. 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
#4. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#5. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.
Michael Hyatt
#7. Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
Stephen Covey
#8. My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#9. Progressives need a collection of proactive policies and communication techniques to get our own values out on our own terms. "War rooms" and "truth squads" must change frames, not reinforce conservative frames.
George Lakoff
#10. A decisive Board is cogitative, proactive, and supportive.
Pearl Zhu
#11. I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.
Hope Powell
#12. 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.
Mark Twain
#13. Christ's incarnation was less a reaction or response than it was a proactive demonstration of love:
John S. Dickerson
#14. The thing about depression is that, if you're not the one who's actually suffering from it, there's very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to the shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.
Sarah Silverman
#15. Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
Richie Norton
#16. 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
#17. We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.
Pope Francis
#18. Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.
Daryl Gates
#19. I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.
Christine Milne
#20. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.
L. Tom Perry
#21. To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
Gary Hamel
#22. Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
John Krasinski
#23. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.
Sheryl Crow
#24. One has to be proactive in warding off ugly, and that costs money.
Kristin Billerbeck
#26. Proactive people show you what they love, what they want, what they purpose, and what they stand for. These people are very different from those who are known by what they hate, what they don't like, what they stand against, and what they will not do.
Henry Cloud
#27. For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.
Agnivesh
#28. It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life.
Kaiden Blake
#29. His hypothesis was that extroverted leaders enhance group performance when employees are passive, but that introverted leaders are more effective with proactive employees.
Susan Cain
#30. Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.
Helen Mirren
#31. As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.
Prefuse 73
#33. I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
Al Yankovic
#34. Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
Stephen Covey
#35. Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure
Cheryl Saban
#36. Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
Gagan Narang
#37. Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That's what people don't realize. Moving on is not proactive. It's organic. Be kind to yourself.
Lisa Jewell
#38. In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.
Stephen Hunter
#40. I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.
Dylan Penn
#41. There's lower wisdom in comment.
Toba Beta
#42. So each time a person decides to wait for 'time to change things', he or she is actually waiting for other people to change his or her fortunes.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#43. Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
Isaac Yeffet
#44. I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!
Daphne Oz
#46. 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
#47. If you are born of God, your civil position will be proactive because only active people can be winners
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
Kenny Loggins
#49. It's about being proactive about creating a life you love instead of meekly living the one you think you're stuck with. Give yourself the gift of a joyous life while you're still among the living.
Jen Sincero
#50. Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation.
Pearl Zhu
#51. We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
Sam Brownback
#52. I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.
Zora Neale Hurston
#54. Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.
Stephen R. Covey
#55. We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking
Julian Pencilliah
#56. Our goal is to assist leaders and for-profit B2B organizations in implementing a culture of high proactive trustworthiness by assessing, capturing, measuring, and utilizing it's greatest asset; Relationship Capital (RC).
Robert Peters
#57. As soon as you start wanting something, then your eyes can see; your mind will be open to identify all the possible ways of obtaining it.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#58. As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
Ray Liotta
#59. 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
#60. Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.
Sherene McHenry
#61. With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
Pearl Zhu
#62. Passively sitting around and waiting for things to happen only leaves things up to chance, which you have no control over.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#63. When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.
Donald Miller
#64. There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
David Allen
#65. You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.
Eric Bana
#66. Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
Laurie Helgoe
#67. 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
#68. I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
Ian Rankin
#69. Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
Stephen Covey
#70. It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.
Joey Lauren Adams
#71. The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
Stephen Covey
#72. Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
Stephen Covey
#73. E-governance is the only way to move from good governance to proactive pro-people good governance (P2G2).
Narendra Modi
#74. The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
Octavia Spencer
#75. When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive - put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.
Rodolfo Costa
#77. If nothing's working for you, if you feel as though you're pushing forward against the grain, the most productive and proactive thing you can do is nothing. Nature is turning you inward, to gain power through peace, rather than outward to gain power through activity.
Martha N. Beck
#79. You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.
Mehmet Oz
#80. Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#81. When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.
Jennie Garth
#82. Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
Olivia Newton-John
#83. I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.
Archie Panjabi
#84. Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you're never disappointed.
George Blagden
#85. I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Michael J. Fox
#86. You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.
Richie Norton
#87. Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur.
Tanya R. Liverman
#88. Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
Monica Johnson
#89. In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.
Michael Demon Calce
#90. Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
Brian Tracy
#92. It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.
Julia Cameron
#93. The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and I'll bet there are some great ways to protect yourself.
Alexa Von Tobel
#94. My job is not to micromanage my team, but to craft a vision based on the business goals of the company and encourage the HR leaders who report to me to be brave, innovative, and proactive in pursuit of that common vision.
Patrick M. Wright
#95. The entire Nation has joined hands to make the dream of a Digital India into a reality. Youngsters are enthusiastic, industry is supportive and the government is proactive. India is yearning for a digital revolution.
Narendra Modi
#96. The next time you are worrying about something, try to remember that you aren't always in control. Instead, do practical things like make a budget or create a schedule. Be proactive and let go of the stress. After all, it won't change a thing.
Demi Lovato
#98. Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.
Anna Faris
#99. Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.
Michelle Moore
#100. Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them.
Ice Cube
