Stephen Covey Quotes about Responsibility

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Look at the word responsibility-response-ability-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Stephen Covey

Responsibility, People, Choices

Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Stephen Covey

Life, Change, Responsibility

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

Stephen Covey

Character, Responsibility, Ambition

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

Change, Responsibility, Animal

"CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

Stephen Covey

Integrity, Commitment, Responsibility

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

Stephen Covey

Responsibility, Feelings, Our Actions

Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Stephen Covey

Responsibility, Reality, Views

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.26, Mango Media Inc.