Motivational Quotes

Quote: Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: choice response weakness blame problem thought

Quote: We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: attitude behavior assumptions perception cynicism

Quote: The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: effectiveness relationship growth change paradigms character motives victory promises personality self-improvement

Quote: Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character...
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: character habits patterns

Quote: Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: victory self-improvement growth change

Quote: Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: weakness blame mistake learning apology

Quote: People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Author: Stephen Covey
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Keywords: freedom life independence co-dependence