The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons In Personal Change Quotes
"The more people are into quick fix and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition."
"Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits."
"Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull -- more than most people realize or would admit."
"The personality ethic is illusory and deceptive."
"True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon."
"If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others."
"Effectiveness lies in the balance -- what I call the P/PC Balance TM."
"But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence -- to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us."
"We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa."
"In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose."
"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct it, and learn from it."
"Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences."
"Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice."
"But leadership is hard because we're often caught in a management paradigm."
"If we did not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default."
"Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it."
"The extent to which you Begin with the End in Mind often determines whether or not you are able to create a successful enterprise."
"Our personal environment is also changing at an ever-increasing pace. Such rapid change burns out a large number of people who feel they can hardly handle it, can hardly cope with life."
"Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self."
"Economic security is basic to one's opportunity to do much in any other dimension."
"To focus on money-making as a center will bring about its own undoing."
"The work will come again, but childhood won't."
"Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action."
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do."
"The only place to get time for Quadrant II in the beginning is from Quadrants III and IV."
"Our effectiveness takes the quantum leaps when we do [Quadrant II activities]."
"If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals."
"What's really important? Why am I doing what I'm doing?"
"By focusing on relationships and results rather than time and methods, the numbers went up."
"True effectiveness requires balance, and your tool needs to help you create and maintain it."
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
"You can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people."
"Your planning tool should be your servant, never your master."
"A producer does whatever is necessary to accomplish desired results, to get the golden eggs."
"You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into."
"Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others."
"Win-win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena."
"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are."
"Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles."
"Anything less than win-win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship."
"Win-Win or No Deal provides tremendous emotional freedom in the family relationship."
"Effective interpersonal leadership requires the vision, the proactive initiative, and the security, guidance, wisdom, and power that come from principle-centered personal leadership."
"The principle of win-win is fundamental to success in all our interactions, and it embraces five interdependent dimensions of life."
"There's no way to go for a win in our own lives if we don't even know, in a deep sense, what constitutes a win."
"Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration."
"The Abundance Mentality, on the other hand, flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and security."
"Empathic listening involves much more than registering, reflecting, or even understanding the words that are said."
"Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates."
"Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival -- to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."
"When properly understood, synergy is the highest activity in all life -- the true test and manifestation of all the other habits put together."
"Synergy is the essence of Principle-Centered Leadership."
"What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
"It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, the spirit of discovery, the spirit of creativity."
"The challenge is to apply the principles of creative cooperation, which we learn from nature, in our social interactions."
"The essence of synergy is to value differences -- to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses."
"Synergistic Communication: When you communicate synergistically, you are simply opening your mind and heart and expressions to new possibilities, new alternatives, new options."
"Many people have not really experienced even a moderate degree of synergy in their family life or in other interactions."
"This represents one of the great tragedies and wastes in life, because so much potential remains untapped -- completely undeveloped and unused."
"The most difficult, and eventually the most fruitful part of this kind of communication came when my vulnerability and Sandra's vulnerability touched."
"I came to value Sandra's insight and wisdom and the way she helped me to be a more open, giving, sensitive, social person."
"What bothered me the most was not that she liked Frigidaire, but that she persisted in making what I considered utterly illogical and indefensible statements."
"Sandra gained tremendous insight into herself and into the emotional root of her feelings about Frigidaire."
"We discovered that even seemingly trivial things often have roots in deep emotional experiences."
"To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing the deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart."
"We feel the key to staying in love is to talk, particularly about feelings."
"Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again -- if your home is a treasured relationship, a precious companionship."
"Change -- real change -- comes from the Inside-Out."
"The highest and most powerful motivation in doing that is not for ourselves only, but for our posterity, for the posterity of all mankind."