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Our Lives Quotes by Stephen Covey
- If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
- People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that…
- 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…
- Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.…
- The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most…
- 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…
- 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…
- Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part…
- All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own…
- An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also…
- As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.
- 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…
- I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important…
- How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each…
More Our Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant… — Nicolas Berggruen
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of… — Irving Berlin
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant
- Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to… — Bjork