Proactive Living Quotes

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

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.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.

Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.