Stephen Covey

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When
you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent
will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The
power to choose, to respond, to change.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to
sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Dr. Stephen Covey

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to
create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your
own.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure
in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are
consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our
character.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle
it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They
feed opportunities and starve problems.
Dr. Stephen Covey

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with
other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a
reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Begin with the end in mind.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the
world.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But
this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are
conditioned to see it.
Dr. Stephen Covey

Anthony Robbins

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's
greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending
commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move
mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may
sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their
dreams from those who live in regret.
Anthony Robbins

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives
meaning to our lives.
Anthony Robbins

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command
when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Anthony Robbins

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most
people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate
what they can achieve in a decade!
Anthony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do
what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Anthony Robbins

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Anthony Robbins

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually
laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of
living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that
determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on,
what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will
determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an
opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own
ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.'
Anthony Robbins

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the
result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgement.
Anthony Robbins

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a
function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about
who we are.
Anthony Robbins

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if:
Anthony Robbins

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have
the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning
that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anthony Robbins

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually
anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the
resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting
for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
Anthony Robbins

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's
not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those
events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in
the future.
Anthony Robbins

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the
meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we
are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Anthony Robbins
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those
events mean.
Anthony Robbins

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's
greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending
commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move
mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may
sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their
dreams from those who live in regret.
Anthony Robbins

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our
focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through
life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Anthony Robbins

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Anthony Robbins

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and
deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Anthony Robbins

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most
important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now?
Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have
been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this
decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
Anthony Robbins

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we
change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain
to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief
cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can
only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure
to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.
Anthony Robbins

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that
determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on,
what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will
determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our
lives, that determine our destiny.
Anthony Robbins

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that
as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most
important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those
I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the
goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some
form of positive action toward its attainment.
Anthony Robbins

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do
what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Anthony Robbins

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed
decision.
Anthony Robbins

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are
simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only
reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's
who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your
goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
Anthony Robbins

You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving,

• 1. You're willing to take massive action,
• 2. You notice what's working or not, and
• 3. You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want,

using whatever life gives you along the way.
Anthony Robbins

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view
is accurate or not.
Anthony Robbins

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.
Anthony Robbins

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to
raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight
years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing
what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer
accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things
that I aspired to becoming.
Anthony Robbins