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Action Quotes by Stephen Covey
- The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of…
- People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to…
- When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or…
- In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us…
- We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others…
- 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…
- If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
- Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever…
- Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and…
- We can act instead of being acted upon.
- To know and not to do is not to know.
- You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
- We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
- Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen…
- We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
- The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle