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Rather Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what…
- 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…
- 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…
- Seek to understand rather than be understood.
- Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
- 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…
- 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…
- When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to…
- True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
- It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
- It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses…
- We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things,…
- Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act…
- My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
- We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
- Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
- In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is…
- It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself…
- As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself…
- 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 Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov