Last Updated on December 13, 2020 by Scott M. Thomas
This is the self-improvement book by Stephen R Covey. Best selling and of course one of the best self-help books in any library. One can take a bunch of motivation from this amazing book. The actual message covey wants to give us is that what we see is entirely based on our own perspective.
We all are seeking happiness in life. But what is happiness? Or what is success? These definitions vary from person to person. Happiness depends upon ourselves. A millionaire can also be unhappy or a homeless person can also be happy in life. It’s all about perspective. Our lives are constructed by our minds. You can find motivation from your inner self.
Nothing is permanent. Covey thinks, in order to change situations we need to change ourselves. You cannot make everyone happy. And it doesn’t need to be actually. 7 habits of highly effective people is a great book to gain inner peace. Every person should read this awesome book. In this writing, we added the best sayings of Covey.
These 7 habits of highly effective people quotes could change your mind permanently. At the end of this writing, you’ll see the 7 habits suggestion by Covey. Don’t miss it.
“The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.” – Stephen R. Covey
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.” – Stephen R. Covey
“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” – Stephen R. Covey
“There’s no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.” – Stephen R. Covey
“We can’t live without eating, but we don’t live to eat.” – Stephen R. Covey
“It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.” – Stephen R. Covey
“build inner character first – private victory before public victory.” – Stephen R. Covey
“It is possible to be busy – very busy – without being very effective.” – Stephen R. Covey
“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.” – Stephen R. Covey
“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.” – Stephen R. Covey
“For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” – Stephen R. Covey
“It is the character that communicates most eloquently…In the last analysis, what we communicate far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” – Stephen R. Covey
“There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distils, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” – Stephen R. Covey
“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.” – Stephen R. Covey
“But borrowing strength builds weakness.” – Stephen R. Covey
“we’re responsible for our own lives.” – Stephen R. Covey
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” – Stephen R. Covey
“The only person I know is the person I want to be” – Stephen R. Covey
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological.”
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” – Stephen R. Covey
“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” – Stephen R. Covey
“How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many because everyone is ultimately a one.” – Stephen R. Covey
“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).” – Stephen R. Covey
“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself.” – Stephen R. Covey
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.” – Stephen R. Covey
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.” – Stephen R. Covey
“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Courage isn’t absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important” – Stephen R. Covey
“Start with the end in mind.” – Stephen R. Covey
“leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make” – Stephen R. Covey
“It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.” – Stephen R. Covey
“You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.” – Stephen R. Covey
“In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” – Stephen R. Covey
“responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Ironically, you’ll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. You’ll no longer build your emotional life on other people’s weaknesses. In addition, you’ll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Most believe that the key to influence is communication—getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don’t you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?” – Stephen R. Covey
“The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” – Stephen R. Covey
“The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility—all in the name of independence.” – Stephen R. Covey
“I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” – Stephen R. Covey
“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” – Stephen R. Covey
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7 Habits Suggestion By Stephen R Covey
These 7 habits belong to productive people. Those who have these 7 habits, definitely he is an effective person!
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw – Stephen R. Covey
- In order to be a pro at anything in life, you have to work your ass off. There is no shortcut in life. Just hang in there what you want to do.
- Set a goal. Don’t multitask.
- Try to understand first. Do what you want to do.
- Build relationships and strong networks with a win-win method. Everyone will be happy then.
- Don’t reply to anything before knowing. Be a listener.
- Respect others’ perspectives. Everyone has his own thoughts.
- Try to see everything from outside the circle. Leave the comfort zone and sharpen the saw.
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