“Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important” “Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.” “The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.” Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. “At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself.”
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).” “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” “People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.” But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.” People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. “It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.” “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” “Sow a thought, reap an action sow an action, reap a habit sow a habit, reap a character sow a character, reap a destiny.” “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.” “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.” My Favorite Top 26 Quotes from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Covey is one of the most influential books ever written. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R.
Our values govern our behavior, but external principles ultimately determine the consequences. He believes that principles are external natural laws, while values are internal and subjective. The personality ethic is prevalent in many modern self-help books, but this ethic is faulty and not based on timeless principles.Ĭovey, in his analysis, separates principles from values. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls “true north” principles based on a character ethics that he presents as universal and timeless and in opposition to what he calls the personality ethic.
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