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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Book by Stephen Covey · 8 quotes · 7 Habits, People, Ifs

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition Quotes

“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.”

“As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.”

“If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.”

“It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.”

“Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.”