Quotes on 7 Habits

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

The way we see the problem is the problem.