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Choices Quotes by Stephen Covey
- 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…
- A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
- Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
- Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
- 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…
- When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to…
- We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the…
- A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
- Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
- We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good…
- Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to…
- 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…
- Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower…
- We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As…
- Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their…
- Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
- Leadership is a choice, not a position
- There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
- We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
- But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot…
- My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
- Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
- If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its…
- Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make
- 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.…
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon