Quotes about Self
First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
- Stephen Covey
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
- Stephen Covey
Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives
- Stephen Covey
What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.
- Stephen Covey
You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
- Stephen Covey
Quality begins with me. And I need to make my own decisions based on carefully selected principles and values.
- Stephen Covey
Inside-out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self—with your paradigms, your character, and your motives.
- Stephen Covey
it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
- Stephen Covey
Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world.
- Stephen Covey
Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk." It's honor with self, a fundamental part of the Character Ethic, the essence of proactive growth.
- Stephen Covey
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal." If you decide
- Stephen Covey