Stephen Covey Quotes

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.