Ability Quote by Stephen Covey Download Open image “Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.” — Stephen Covey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Funny Happiness Inspirational Love Planning Pursuit of happiness
Our happiness can't be based on ability to control everything that is futile. We do control our actions not the consequences. — JOHN REYES Copy Share Image
Most times, we are frustrated by what we can't control... thus forgetting to create those things under our control such as our Happiness. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. -Epictetus — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
