Stephen Covey Quotes

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

Be as you wish to seem.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can.

A man really determines himself by what he does.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

It took me a long time to realise that I need to stay true to my game.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

As you get a little older, you understand what you need to do to be good, regardless of who likes it or doesn't like it. It's my career. And at the end of the day, it's going to be how I think I can do it best.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.