Quotes about Mindset
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically
- Stephen Covey
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory.
- Stephen Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts
- Stephen 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," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors
- Stephen Covey
Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. Your creative, visual right brain is one of your most important assets, both in creating your personal mission statement and in integrating it into your life.
- Stephen Covey
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly—with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
- Stephen 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," the
- Stephen Covey
I know this idea is a dramatic paradigm shift for many people. It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. 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
It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).
- Stephen Covey
But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us.
- Stephen Covey
There is no effectiveness without discipline and there is no discipline without character. And there is no character without first starting and asking questions.
- Stephen Covey
You might work on your attitude—you could think more positively. You still wouldn't get to the right place, but perhaps you wouldn't care. Your attitude would be so positive, you'd be happy wherever you were.
- Stephen Covey