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Self Quotes by Stephen Covey
- I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that…
- 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…
- Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
- Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those…
- The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your…
- As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the…
- The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of…
- Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles…
- Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
- 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…
- If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a…
- Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no…
- Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness…
- 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…
- Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
- Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
- Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and…
- Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
- In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results…
- Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for…
- How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about…
- The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and…
- Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose,…
- Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
- 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…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster