Agents Quote by Stephen Covey

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning…

— Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances,…

— Anonymous

“Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their…

— Stephen R. Covey

“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…

— Stephen R. Covey

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative…

— Stephen Covey

I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.

— Lisa Jewell

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to…

— Stephen Covey

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

— Dave Matthews

“It takes awareness to be proactive instead of reactive, to try something different instead of going back to the same old dysfunctional routine.”

— Jeffrey Foote

I consider myself a hyperactive person.

— Antoni Porowski

“Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.”

— Stephen R. Covey