Quotes about Personal Growth

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.

El «despegue» exige un esfuerzo tremendo, pero en cuanto nos despegamos de la atracción gravitatoria, nuestra libertad adquiere una dimensión totalmente nueva.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory.

private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

Solo podemos lograr una mejora considerable en nuestra vida cuando dejamos de cortar las hojas de la actitud y la conducta y trabajamos sobre la raíz, sobre los paradigmas de los que fluyen la actitud y la conducta.

build inner character first—private victory before public victory.

private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.

eventually we can essentially take care of ourselves, becoming inner-directed and self-reliant.

There is no effectiveness without discipline and there is no discipline without character. And there is no character without first starting and asking questions.

I am not suggesting that elements of the Personality Ethic—personality growth, communication skill training, and education in the field of influence strategies and positive thinking—are not beneficial, in fact sometimes essential for success. I believe they are. But these are secondary, not primary traits.

El poder de comprometernos con nosotros mismos y de mantener esos compromisos es la esencia del desarrollo de los hábitos básicos de la efectividad

Stephen R. Covey

Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull—more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.

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.

This new level of thinking is what The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is about. It's a principle-centered, character-based, "inside-out" approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

protected." We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life?

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. We are the instruments of our own performance, and to be effective, we need to recognize the importance of taking time regularly to sharpen the saw in all four ways.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Inside-out

El hermoso viaje de hoy sólo puede comenzar cuando aprendemos a dejar ir el ayer. STEVE MARABOLI, INVESTIGADOR

Deja que la refinación y la mejora de tu propia vida te mantenga tan ocupado que tengas poco tiempo para criticar a otros. H. JACKSON BROWN, JR., ESCRITOR

Son las preguntas que no podemos responder las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan cómo pensar. Si le das a un hombre una respuesta, lo único que gana es un pequeño hecho. Pero dale una pregunta y va a buscar sus propias respuestas. PATRICK ROTHFUSS, AUTOR