More Quotes by Stephen Covey
You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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 for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
