Quotes on Seven Habits

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.

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.

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

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

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

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

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

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.