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| Quote: | Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | choice response weakness blame problem thought |
| Quote: | We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | attitude behavior assumptions perception cynicism |
| Quote: | The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | effectiveness relationship growth change paradigms character motives victory promises personality self-improvement |
| Quote: | Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | character habits patterns |
| Quote: | Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | victory self-improvement growth change |
| Quote: | Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | weakness blame mistake learning apology |
| Quote: | People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | freedom life independence co-dependence |
| Quote: | Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | love friendship action |
| Quote: | We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | limitations growth self-improvement |
| Quote: | Live out of your imagination, not your history. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | growth change creativity imagination past future |
| Quote: | People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | change principles values self-knowledge vision |
| Quote: | 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. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | proactive circumstances creativity mission vision learning growth |
| Quote: | It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | character apology sorry principles values |
| Quote: | Seek first to understand, then to be understood. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | love friendship relationships business understanding |
| Quote: | Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | potential synergy creativity growth learning living values principles |
| Quote: | Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | happiness desire sacrifice delayed gratification vision goal |
| Quote: | Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | perception self-image self-knowledge security understanding love friendship relationships intentions behavior |
| Quote: | Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | growth change vision patience |
| Quote: | Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | choice behavior attitude reaction responsibility freedom |
| Quote: | The way we see the problem is the problem. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | problem perception |
| Quote: | All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | creation planning creativity action |
| Quote: | As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives--you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | principles values emotion balance work family |
| Quote: | You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.' |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | priorities planning responsibility no |
| Quote: | Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | problems effectiveness opportunity business |
| Quote: | Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance. |
| Author: | Stephen Covey |
| Source: | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Keywords: | success balance effectiveness business compartmentalization |