The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) / quote 147 of 203

Real success is victory over self

He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

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