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Behavior 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…
- If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
- Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for…
- Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel…
- Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
- While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.
- Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
- More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
- Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
- Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
- Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
- My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
- Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
- We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and…
- Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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