Quotes About Proactivity

#1. For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result.

Stephen R. Covey

#2. The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.

Stephen R. Covey

#3. The opportunity to live and experience life inspires me. Watching others not take it for granted inspires me. Using time to create something timeless through creativity and proactivity inspires me.

Malcolm Goodwin

#4. The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Stephen Covey

#5. Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life.

Rand Olson

#6. Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Karen Finerman

#7. Anything less than such proactivity is a cheap imitation of the life you were meant to live. It's stalling.

Jeff Goins

#8. I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

Marta

#9. You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait; but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#10. Perhaps the most tragic ignorance is that of responsibility.

Anonymous

#11. Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Norman Doidge

#12. There's no words to explain how big it was, what Cold and I had, or how much it hurts when something that big in your life is swept away, or how empty that place is that he once filled, or how impossible it is to find something to fill it.

Kristen Ashley

#13. Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Nora Roberts

#14. Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?

Patricia Hamill

#15. It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

Grace Murray Hopper

#16. God help us, we can't keep up this pulling, that is certain. Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess.

Robert Falcon Scott

#17. Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he will become as he can and should be.

Stephen R. Covey

#18. Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Vincent Massey

#19. I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

Hilarie Burton

#20. I love the lambs, not the sheep.

Roger Peyrefitte

#21. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama

#22. Working out, for me, gives me energy in the day and just makes me happy.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#23. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.

Michael Hyatt