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Quotes About Self

It means to be responsible for my own first creation, to rescript myself so that the paradigms from which my behavior and attitude flow are congruent with my deepest values and in harmony with correct principles.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth—in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words—in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. This requires an integrated character, a oneness, primarily with self but also with life.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Principle-centered leadership is practiced from the inside out on four levels: 1) personal (my relationship with myself); 2) interpersonal (my relationships and interactions with others); 3) managerial (my responsibility to get a job done with others); and 4) organizational (my need to organize people—to recruit them, train them, compensate them, build teams, solve problems, and create aligned structure, strategy, and systems).
~ Stephen R. Covey
Work on things you have control over. Work on you.
~ Stephen R. Covey
In addition, you'll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.
~ Stephen R. Covey
embryonic freedom day after day will, 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 the scripts written by parents, associates, and society.
~ Stephen R. Covey
But to himself he responded, Ashamed? Ashamed? His face contorted in a wild grimace. Beware! Outcast unclean!
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
All power is an articulation of its wielder. There is no other source than life—and the desire of that life to express itself.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I read to see myself in other people's lives.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.
~ Stephen Sondheim
I like to include you in the definition of me . - Danny Daniels
~ Steve Berry
your mind was given to you to use to create the person you want to be.
~ Steve Chandler
Purpose can be built, strengthened, and made more inspiring every day. We are totally responsible for our own sense of purpose. We can go inside our own spirit and create it, or not. The energy of our lives is wholly dependent on how much purpose we're willing to create.
~ Steve Chandler
How you program your mind is what will reinvent who you are.
~ Steve Chandler
Only a self-obsessed ego can be wounded. Action itself can't be wounded. Spirit can't be wounded.
~ Steve Chandler
8-Push all your own buttons: Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.
~ Steve Chandler
Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves. Don Colacho
~ Steve Chandler
Think up some stories about who you would like to be. Soon you will begin to create the necessary blueprint for stretching your accomplishments. Without a picture of your highest self, you can't live into that self. Fake it 'till you make it. The lie will become the truth.
~ Steve Chandler
Self-motivation is all a matter of how much in control you want to be.
~ Steve Chandler
Purpose can be built, strengthened, and made more inspiring every day. We are totally responsible for our own sense of purpose. We can go inside our own spirit
~ Steve Chandler
Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.
~ Steve Erickson
Identity was something known in a way utterly removed from the vessel that carried it.
~ Steve Erickson
Of course, we can't just drop our notion of self as we would remove a garment. It's a rather compelling illusion. … [However, o]nce it's seen that the 'I' cannot be found the mind is free[.]
~ Steve Hagen