Stephen Covey Proactive Quotes

#1. Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

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#2. If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

Jeremy Irvine

#3. Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

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#4. The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

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#5. Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

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#6. A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

Julia Bacha

#7. The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances

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#8. Size isn't everything." Mackenzie Winters

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#9. If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

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#10. One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Robyn Hitchcock

#11. People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

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#15. I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

Madonna Ciccone

#16. 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.

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#17. The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

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#18. Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

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#19. 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.

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#20. Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

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#21. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.

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#22. Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

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