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Act Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
- Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
- 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…
- Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between…
- 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…
- It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
- To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
- We can act instead of being acted upon.
- True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
- If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.
- In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better.…
- Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
- Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act…
- The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
- Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions.…
- In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is…
More Act Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden