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Response Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Accountability breeds response-ability.
- 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…
- Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue…
- Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
- While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
- Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose.
- When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
- 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…
- Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
More Response Quotes
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. — Charles Barkley
- More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political… — Gary Bauer
- The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As… — Andrew Bernstein
- It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios. — Julie Bishop
- I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the… — Lewis Black
- Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. — Ray Blanton
- Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve… — John Boehner
- When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?' — Christina Aguilera
- As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in… — John O. Brennan
- The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. — Tom Brokaw