Quotes about Mindset
If you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.
- Stephen Covey
As long as we are working in our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us. We aren't taking the proactive initiative necessary to effect positive change.
- Stephen Covey
It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In
- Stephen Covey
It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
- 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
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
- Stephen Covey
While we can't always control what happens to us, we can always choose how we react to life's challenges.
- Stephen Covey
You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles.
- Stephen Covey
To change the situation, you must first change yourself. To change yourself, you must first change your perceptions.
- Stephen Covey
Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.
- 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
And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
- Stephen Covey