Stephen Covey Quotes

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

Learn yourself and love yourself.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.