Quotes about Self-awareness
least some of these goals should reflect Quadrant II activities. Ideally, these weekly goals would be tied to the longer-term goals you have identified in conjunction with your personal mission statement. But even if you haven't written your mission
— Stephen Covey
Our secret life is where we are able to tap into the power of the four human endowments: self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and independent will.
— Stephen Covey
We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world.
— Stephen Covey
Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
— Stephen Covey
It means to be responsible for my own first creation, to rescript myself so that the paradigms from which my behavior and attitude flow are congruent with my deepest values and in harmony with correct principles.
— Stephen 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.
— Stephen Covey
Build inner character first—private victory before public victory.
— Stephen Covey
We have conscience—a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that govern our behavior, and a sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with them. And we have independent will—the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences.
— Stephen Covey
Remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it.
— Stephen Covey
He can only answer to life by answering for his own life.
— 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
No one can hurt you without your consent.
— Stephen Covey