Quotes From Steven Covey

• Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Live out of your imagination, not your history.
• 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.
• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
• Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
• Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
• 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.
• Begin with the end in mind.
• Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
• 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.

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Inspiring Words (III)

36). You either run your day or your day will run you.

37). Formal education will earn you a living, but self-education will make you a fortune.

38). Life doesn’t get better by chance. It gets better by change.

39). Success is simply doing very ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

40). Before you die, make sure you had made a difference.

41). For every liability is an asset in hiding.

42). Your character is far more important than your reputation. Your reputation is what others perceive you, but your
character is who you truly are.

43). The key to conquering fear is to do what you fear again and again and again.

44). The successful person profits from his mistakes and tries again in a different way.

45). Reward always comes to those who do not quit.

46). Whenever someone tells you “it can’t be done,” ask him what greatness he has done to make such a statement.

47). Desire is the initial point to all accomplishments.

48). In the ladder of success, it’s very lonely at the top.

49). Know what you want and have the burning desire to have it can only lead to one thing – success.

50). The easiest way to succeed is to help others succeed.

Quotes From 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.
• 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.
• The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
• It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.
• 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.
• 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!
• The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
• 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.
• Action is the foundational key to all success.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.’
• 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.
• 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.
• The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if:

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Inspiring Words (II)

16). Wrong beliefs are something you won’t even know, but it is destroying you.

17). Your mind has the power to change almost anything and everything in an instant. To make dreams a reality is all within us.

18). Take control of your emotions and begin to reshape your life consciously and deliberately. Who are you now? Who do you want to be? Then decide to make the change, however gradual it may be.

19). In your moment of decision is your destiny shaped, not in the conditions given you in life.

20). If there is no involvement, there is no commitment.

21). Effective and efficient people starve problems and feed on opportunities.

22). Only when you act upon it can it be an opportunity.

23). We see the world as what we are and how we are conditioned to see it.

24). More luck will come to you if you take more chances.

25). Each person has some things good in them and that is what you should look for.

26). Resist the temptation to make excuses or defend yourself. Therefore, never explain and never complain.

27). A small difference in your performance can lead to a large difference in your result.

28). Successful people are always giving, but unsuccessful people are always asking.

29). The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

30). If you seek security, you will not get it. But if you seek opportunity, you will find security.

31). It doesn’t matter where you have been. What matters is where you are going.

32). If you can clearly visualize it, it is bound to come true.

33). Help people not with their jobs, but with their lives.

34). Motivation is never enough because you can motivate a moron only to get a motivated moron. You still have a moron, nevertheless.

35). “How I wish someone will come-by to crank me up.” What is your plan if he does not show up?

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Self-Discipline

To really be able to focus demands a lot of self-discipline. Remember that your outcome depends on YOU, not on the world around you. If you want something badly enough you WILL do everything in your power to get it.

Self-discipline in this context is basically only letting yourself do what you WANT to do at that precise moment in time to be able to reach your goals more quickly.

Remember that YOU are the boss of your actions. YOU are the one who is in control. So ultimately YOU decide what and when to do things you need to do to achieve your ultimate success.

Your ability to manage your actions is directly related to the level of success and happiness you will experience throughout your life. Managing your actions is commonly known as exercising self-discipline.

It’s absolutely not about restricting your lifestyle, or punishing yourself. It’s about being able to work with your thoughts, behaviour and actions in order to reach the goals that you wish to reach.

Not having self-discipline is one of the main reasons why we fail at what we want to do, both professionally and personally. Excuse-making often creates lack of self-discipline, so drop all your excuses and start keeping habits that in themselves will create the self-discipline you need. Make routines that you know you are capable of sticking to, and keep them.

How do you attain self-discipline? A few options could be regular exercise, better, healthier eating, even learning to spend less money. It could be something like deciding to learn something new every single day or just getting up an hour earlier than you normally would.

Having self-discipline will help you to complete the most boring and mundane of the tasks you are focusing on. Should you find yourself sitting and thinking thoughts like “Oh, I’ll just do this instead” or “I can do that some other time” when you are working on your goals then STOP, take a deep breath and remember your self-discipline.

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