Stephen Covey Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

• We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

  Stephen Covey

  Self Esteem, Creativity, Accomplishment

  Interview With Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Responsibility, Animal

  "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

• Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Decision, Empowerment

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.82, Mango Media Inc.

• Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

  Stephen Covey

  Careers, Decision, Influence

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Decision, Challenges, Mind

• Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Failure, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

  Stephen Covey

  Power, Choices, Decision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

• As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

  Stephen Covey

  Decision, Feelings, Personal Development

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.82, Mango Media Inc.

• 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 the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

  Stephen Covey

  Independent, Self Confidence, Decisions We Make

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

• A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

  Stephen Covey

  Dna, Decisions We Make, Purpose

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

• I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, People, Decision

  Source: zenhabits.net

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin