Quotes on 7 Habits

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

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.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.