Stephen Covey Our Actions Quotations

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

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.

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.

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