Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 12
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, in The Phenomenon of Man [Le Phénomène Humain] (1955); Covey quotes this in Living the 7 Habits : Stories of Courage and Inspiration (2000), p. 47
Variant: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
A paraphrase of De Chardin's statement which has also become misattributed to Covey.
Misattributed
Variant: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004), by Alex Pattakos, p. x
This statement has also been attributed to James Neil Hollingsworth (AKA: Ambrose Redmoon) in an article entitled "No Peaceful Warriors!" for Gnosis Magazine #21, in 1991.
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
As quoted in Wake-up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk through your Life, Love, or Career! (1992) by Eric Allenbaugh, p. 65
“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change