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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Passion, Empowerment
Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Positive Thinking, Control Myself
Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.106, Mango Media Inc.

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.

Stephen Covey
Change, Encouragement, Freedom

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Stephen Covey
Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom
Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Interdependency follows independence.

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Empowerment, Independence

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Integrity, Independent
Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Decision, Empowerment
Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.82, Mango Media Inc.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Stephen Covey
Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom
Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

Stephen Covey
Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Independent, Giving
Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Stephen Covey
Mom, Freedom, Exercise
Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

It comes from within.

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Empowerment
Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Stephen Covey
Freedom, Believe, Yield

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