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Actions 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
More Actions Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. — Abu Bakr
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson