The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Quotes by Stephen Covey

We have curated a list of the best quotes from the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. Let’s get a look at quotes.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a business and self-help book and it was published in 1989 and an American author Stephen R. Covey. In this book, Stephen mentioned techniques by which we can become more effective towards our goals. He calls it the “true north” principle.

If you are here to read the quotes of this book so we guess you guys definitely know about the book. So without any further ado let’s get into the list. 

List of Best Quotes from “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Book:

1. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

2. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

3. “Start with the end in mind. ”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

4. “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

5. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

6. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

7. “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

8. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

9. “It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

10. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

11. “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

12. “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

13. “At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

14. “The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

15. “Courage isn’t absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

16. “Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

18. “As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

19. “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

20. “There’s no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”

― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Wrapping up

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Sourabh

Sourabh Sharma is a hobbyist book reader, Entrepreneur, and a literature student at Delhi University. A blog writer by day and a book reader by night, he is oathed to discuss himself in a third person but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.