"Basing our happiness on our ability to control……" — Stephen Covey

"Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile."

556 Quotes by Stephen Covey

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I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with…
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the…
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will…
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not…
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we…
The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the…

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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our… — Julian Assange
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos… — Rowan Atkinson
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike… — Rowan Atkinson
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,… — Margaret Atwood
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under… — Marcus Aurelius
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital… — Joe Baca

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