Explore 'Proactivity'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.

Warren Buffett

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.

Wallace D. Wattles

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William Butler Yeats

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Gerhard Richter

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

Alfred Armand Montapert

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Sasha Azevedo

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

Napoleon Hill

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

Steve Backley

You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

Patricia Schroeder

Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Zoe Kazan

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Carl von Clausewitz

It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

Christian Bale

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Richard Nelson Bolles

The shortest answer is doing.

George Herbert

There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.

Wes Fesler

Don’t wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.

Tony Evans

Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

Roy T. Bennett

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