QUOTES

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

We first make out Habits, and then our habits make us.
-Stephen R. Covey
We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
-Stephen R. Covey
All sinificant breakthrouhs are break-!withs" old ways of thinkin.
-#homas $uhn
%ach of us is born with the ift of self-awareness. We can stand apart from our paradims, we
can e&amine them, and we can chane them if necessary.
-Stephen R. Covey
#he reatest place to apply the concept of the '('C )alance is in relationships. #hey are the
most important thins we have in life.
-Stephen R. Covey
'eople will pass away, but principles never will* they endure.
-Abraham +incoln
,ive a man a fish, you feed him for the day*
#each him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
-+ao-t-u
.our life is a result of your own decisions-not your conditions.
-Stephen R. Covey
)etween what happens to us and your response if space. /n that space lies our freedom to
choose our response.
-Anonymous
/t0s not what people do to us that hurts us, it0s our chosen response to what they do they hurts
us.
-Stephen R. Covey
#hey cannot take away our self-respect if we do not ive it to them.
-1ahatma ,andhi
%ach of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe
which he inhabits.
-2ulton 3. Sheen
See every problem as an opportunity to e&ercise creative enery.
-Stephen R. Covey
Always start every endeavor with a clear sense of purpose.
-Stephen R. Covey
4oesn0t everythin die at last and too soon5 #ell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild
and precious life5
-1ary 6liver
%fficiency with people is ineffective. With people, fast is slow and slow is fast.
-Stephen R. Covey
/t doesn0t really matter how fast you0re oin if you0re headin in the wron direction.
-Stephen R. Covey
.ou will only be able to say no to the popularity of 7uadrant /// if you have a bier !yes"
burnin inside.
-Stephen R. Covey
#he week is the !normal lens" that ives us the most manaeable perspective.
-Stephen R. Covey
'lan your week, each week, before the week beins.
-Stephen R. Covey
6rani-in your life around the many roles you play will help you maintain balance and focus on
your key relationships rather than focusin on tasks and thins.
-Stephen R. Covey
.ou can0t talk yourself out of problems you behave yourself into.
-Stephen R. Covey
/f you0re oin to bow, bow low.
-%astern e&pression
%mpathy is the fastest form of human communication.
-Stephen R. Covey
/t0s more noble to ive yourself completely to ne individual, than to labor diliently for the
salvation of the masses.
-4a Hammarsk8old
When you0re thirsty, it0s too late to think about diin a well.
-3apanese proverb
We shouldn0t et too wrapped up in one aspect of life. /f we do, we close ourselves off to new
e&periences.
-9en sayin
Readin is to the mind what e&ercise is to the body.
-3oseph Addison
Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.
-+ord Halifa&
/ have cancer but cancer doesn0t have me.
-:nknown
#o keep the lamp burnin, we have to keep puttin oil in it.
-1other #eresa