While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
STEPHEN COVEYPrepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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