Quotes related to 2 Timothy 1:7
Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit
— Stephen Covey
Habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.
— Stephen Covey
The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the basic habits of effectiveness. Knowledge, skill, and desire are all within our control. We can work on any one to improve the balance of the three.
— Stephen Covey
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.
— Stephen Covey
Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do.
— Stephen Covey
But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.
— Stephen Covey
He realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
— Stephen Covey
Hands the first step to the solution. Changing our habits, changing our methods of influence and changing the way we see our no control problems are all within our Circle of Influence.
— Stephen Covey
It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don't want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
— Stephen Covey
The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go.
— Stephen Covey
Define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.
— Stephen Covey
As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives.
— Stephen Covey