Stephen Covey Actions Quotations

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.