Proactive Quotes

Welcome to our inspiring compilation of the best  positive quotes by famous people. Taking action and being proactive are two of the most important ingredients to success in life.

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Being Proactive Quotes

Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Michael Landon Jr.

The future depends on what you do today. – Mahatma Gandhi

Recast your current problems into proactive goals. – Suze Orman

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein

You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive. – Frank Abagnale

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. – Mother Teresa

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. – Stephen Covey

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do. – Bruce Lee

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. – Octavia Spencer

As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you. – Mike Love

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed. – Henrik Ibsen

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

When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive. Fei-Fei Li

Action expresses priorities. – Mahatma Ghandi

People are always blaming their circumstance for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

It is easy to sit up and take notice.  What is difficult is getting up and taking action. – Honore de Balzac

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

Action is the foundational key for all success. – Pablo Picasso

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.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. – Khalil Gibran

You cannot have positive life and a negative mind – Joyce Meyer

Forever is composed of nows. – Emily Dickinson

Change what you can, manage what you can’t. –  Raymond McCauley

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. – Robert Green Ingersoll

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

You are what you do ,not what you say you’ll do. – Carl Gustav Jung

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. – Emmet Fox

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

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. – John Robert Wooden

If you’re proactive, you focus on preparing. If you’re reactive, you end up focusing on repairing. – John C. Maxwell

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

Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it. – Nora Roberts

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. – Mitch Albom

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. – Stephen Covey

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. – Mother Teresa