Best Stephen Covey Proverbs
- A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. Affirmation
- As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings… Behavior
- Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride… All
- If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want… Appropriately
- If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in… Control
- If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results… Achieve
- It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Ahead
- Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education… All
- Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness… Animal
- Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part… Agendas
- Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when… Act
- Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent… Action
- There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there… Dimension
- 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet… Bases
- All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own… Agendas
- Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. Behavior
- Nothing tastes as good as thin feels. Disorder
- Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to… Adapt
- Seek to understand before you seek to be understood. Funny
- Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not… Commitment
- It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it. Act
- Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less. Appreciate
- All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements Agreement
- Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you. Ahead
- If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so. Abdicated
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