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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

1.“Courage isn’t absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important” ★★
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

2.“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” ★★
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

3.“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” ★
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

4.“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 

5.“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

6.“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.” ★★
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

7.“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” ★★
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

8.“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 

9.“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

10.“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

11.“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

12.“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 

13.“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

14.“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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15.“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ★★
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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“Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First★★
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood★★
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

17.“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

18.“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

19.

“My wife and I just don’t have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don’t love her anymore and she doesn’t love me. What can i do?”
“The feeling isn’t there anymore?” I asked.
“That’s right,” he reaffirmed. “And we have three children we’re really concerned about. What do you suggest?”
“love her,” I replied.
“I told you, the feeling just isn’t there anymore.”
“Love her.”
“You don’t understand. the feeling of love just isn’t there.”
“Then love her. If the feeling isn’t there, that’s a good reason to love her.”
“But how do you love when you don’t love?”
“My friend , love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

20.“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

21.“The only person I know is the person I want to be”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

22.“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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