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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. -- Stephen R. Covey
remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it. -- Stephen R. Covey
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things. -- Stephen R. Covey
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow. -- Stephen R. Covey
It comes from within. -- Stephen R. Covey
Effectiveness lies in the balance - what I call the P/PC Balance. P stands for production of desired results, the golden eggs. PC stands for production capability, the ability or asset that produces the golden eggs. -- Stephen R. Covey
Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. * -- Stephen R. Covey
Treat them all the same by treating them differently. -- Stephen R. Covey
understanding. As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently." Attending to the Little Things -- Stephen R. Covey
So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I'd choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything. -- Stephen R. Covey
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. -- Stephen R. Covey
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective. -- Stephen R. Covey
The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility - all in the name of independence. -- Stephen R. Covey
Family itself is a "we" experience, a "we" mentality. And admittedly, the movement from "me" to "we" - from independence to interdependence - is perhaps one of the most challenging and difficult aspects of family life. -- Stephen R. Covey
Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic. -- Stephen R. Covey
Referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children seem to have an innate -- Stephen R. Covey
It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say. -- Stephen R. Covey
Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule. -- Stephen R. Covey
Becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. -- Stephen R. Covey
The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be -- Stephen R. Covey
Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response? -- Stephen R. Covey
He (Anwar Sadat) 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. -- Stephen R. Covey
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. -- Stephen R. Covey
The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. -- Stephen R. Covey
When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience. -- Stephen R. Covey
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. -- Stephen R. Covey
You can't change the fruit without changing the root. -- Stephen R. Covey
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. -- Stephen R. Covey
The message sent to one is truly sent to all because everyone is a "one," and they know that if you treat one that way, all it takes is a change of circumstances and you'll treat them that way, too. -- Stephen R. Covey
Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives - although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control. -- Stephen R. Covey
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. -- Stephen R. Covey
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. -- Stephen R. Covey
As Marilyn Ferguson observed, No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. -- Stephen R. Covey
To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow. This -- Stephen R. Covey
It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later. -- Stephen R. Covey
The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by. -- Stephen R. Covey
We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently -- Stephen R. Covey
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply. -- Stephen R. Covey
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment. -- Stephen R. Covey
Independent people can get what they want through -- Stephen R. Covey
You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness. -- Stephen R. Covey
All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships. -- Stephen R. Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. -- Stephen R. Covey
The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility. -- Stephen R. Covey
Churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply. -- Stephen R. Covey
When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion
that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet
therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code. -- Stephen R. Covey
Don't compromise, when you can synergize. -- Stephen R. Covey
Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things. -- Stephen R. Covey
Systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It's almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of the human condition, part of the human consciousness, part of the human conscience. They seem to exist in all human beings, regardless of social conditioning -- Stephen R. Covey
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. -- Stephen R. Covey
If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others. -- Stephen R. Covey
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results. -- Stephen R. Covey
I've set and met my career goals and I'm having tremendous professional success. But it's cost me my personal and family life. I don't know my wife and children anymore. I'm not even sure I know myself and what's really important to me. I've had to ask myself - is it worth it? -- Stephen R. Covey
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. -- Stephen R. Covey
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are--or, as we are conditioned to see it. -- Stephen R. Covey
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. -- Stephen R. Covey
My friend, love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. -- Stephen R. Covey
Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it. -- Stephen R. Covey
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance. -- Stephen R. Covey
We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you. -- Stephen R. Covey
I've learned that once children gain a sense of real possession, they share very naturally, freely, and spontaneously. -- Stephen R. Covey
Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities. -- Stephen R. Covey
Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. -- Stephen R. Covey
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. -- Stephen R. Covey
leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right -- Stephen R. Covey
We have such a tendency to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really, deeply understand the problem first. -- Stephen R. Covey
How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one. -- Stephen R. Covey
Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. -- Stephen R. Covey
If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. -- Stephen R. Covey
When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self. -- Stephen R. Covey
In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose. -- Stephen R. Covey
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions. -- Stephen R. Covey
We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other. -- Stephen R. Covey
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options. -- Stephen R. Covey
Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone. -- Stephen R. Covey
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself. -- Stephen R. Covey
You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself. -- Stephen R. Covey
Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values. -- Stephen R. Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. -- Stephen R. Covey
People who exercise their freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' [That is, until] they are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. -- Stephen R. Covey
Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experienced what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth. -- Stephen R. Covey
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. -- Stephen R. Covey
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. -- Stephen R. Covey
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities -- Stephen R. Covey
Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs - the eternal student syndrome. -- Stephen R. Covey
It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place. -- Stephen R. Covey
What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? -- Stephen R. Covey
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. -- Stephen R. Covey
It is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done. -- Stephen R. Covey
Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped up in their work, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to prevent them from continuing in it. -- Stephen R. Covey
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. -- Stephen R. Covey
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make -- Stephen R. Covey
Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three -- Stephen R. Covey
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home. -- Stephen R. Covey
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith. -- Stephen R. Covey
It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. -- Stephen R. Covey
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. -- Stephen R. Covey
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent - paralyzed or disabled or limited -- Stephen R. Covey
Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts. -- Stephen R. Covey
If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default. -- Stephen R. Covey
Chasing after the poisonous snake that bites us will only drive the poison through our entire system. It is far better to take measures immediately to get the poison out. -- Stephen R. Covey
For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result. -- Stephen R. Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action; -- Stephen R. Covey
You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence -- Stephen R. Covey
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle. -- Stephen R. Covey
man you might like to take her out. If you were -- Stephen R. Covey
If I were emotionally dependent, my sense of worth and security would come from your opinion of me. -- Stephen R. Covey
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. -- Stephen R. Covey
The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were. -- Stephen R. Covey
If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road. -- Stephen R. Covey
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there--shared vision and values. -- Stephen R. Covey
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices. -- Stephen R. Covey
Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people. -- Stephen R. Covey
The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior. -- Stephen R. Covey
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. -- Stephen R. Covey
right" will have little to do with being found out. Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their -- Stephen R. Covey
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are
by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance
you will not learn or grow -- Stephen R. Covey
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. -- Stephen R. Covey
You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into! -- Stephen R. Covey
What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn. -- Stephen R. Covey
You have to water the flowers you want to grow. -- Stephen R. Covey
Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase. -- Stephen R. Covey
Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles! -- Stephen R. Covey
Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your desires and discipline. -- Stephen R. Covey
We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow. -- Stephen R. Covey
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). -- Stephen R. Covey
We are free to choose our actions, ... but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. -- Stephen R. Covey
Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people. -- Stephen R. Covey
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important -- Stephen R. Covey
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. -- Stephen R. Covey
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself. -- Stephen R. Covey
The way we see the problem is the problem. -- Stephen R. Covey
Statement - and then to bring that sense of mission, of purpose, to your -- Stephen R. Covey
Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually -- Stephen R. Covey
Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken. -- Stephen R. Covey
We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat. -- Stephen R. Covey
Unless you're influenced by my uniqueness, I'm not going to be influenced by your advice. -- Stephen R. Covey
What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us. -- Stephen R. Covey
Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible. -- Stephen R. Covey
People are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren't getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope ... with all of their might. -- Stephen R. Covey
It's not enough to dream. It's not enough to try. It's not enough to set goals or climb ladders. It's not enough to value. The effort has to be based on practical realities that produce the result. Only then can we dream, set goals, and work to achieve them with confidence. -- Stephen R. Covey
In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset - a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets. -- Stephen R. Covey
habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. -- Stephen R. Covey
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately. -- Stephen R. Covey
There might be exceptions - and if so, you might rethink their employment - but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution - to find purpose in their work. -- Stephen R. Covey
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. -- Stephen R. Covey
Remember that quick fix is a mirage. Building and repairing relationships takes time. -- Stephen R. Covey
People simply feel better about themselves when they're good at something. -- Stephen R. Covey
Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players -- Stephen R. Covey
Educating the heartis the critical complement to educating the mind. -- Stephen R. Covey
People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. -- Stephen R. Covey
what is the truth about the inner motivations, character, and ambition of those who hold power? -- Stephen R. Covey
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. -- Stephen R. Covey
When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future. -- Stephen R. Covey
To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. -- Stephen R. Covey
I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children's good behavior, and, in our eyes, this son simply didn't measure up. -- Stephen R. Covey
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions -- Stephen R. Covey
Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities -- Stephen R. Covey
No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice. -- Stephen R. Covey
While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own. -- Stephen R. Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. -- Stephen R. Covey
Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological. -- Stephen R. Covey
When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing. -- Stephen R. Covey
We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits. -- Stephen R. Covey
Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real. -- Stephen R. Covey
If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. -- Stephen R. Covey
Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life. -- Stephen R. Covey
To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent. -- Stephen R. Covey
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves. -- Stephen R. Covey
Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently. -- Stephen R. Covey
Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature: -- Stephen R. Covey
What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
-Emerson -- Stephen R. Covey
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us. -- Stephen R. Covey
One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all. -- Stephen R. Covey
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life! -- Stephen R. Covey
Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. -- Stephen R. Covey
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. -- Stephen R. Covey
It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things. -- Stephen R. Covey
We detect rather than invent our missions in life. I -- Stephen R. Covey
Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom. -- Stephen R. Covey
But borrowing strength builds weakness. -- Stephen R. Covey
The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities. -- Stephen R. Covey
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. -- Stephen R. Covey
What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your personal life? What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your professional or work life? -- Stephen R. Covey
Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice. -- Stephen R. Covey
There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character. -- Stephen R. Covey
It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And -- Stephen R. Covey
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good. -- Stephen R. Covey
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world. -- Stephen R. Covey
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings. -- Stephen R. Covey
Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is -- Stephen R. Covey
In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil - the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be." T -- Stephen R. Covey
Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process. -- Stephen R. Covey
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. -- Stephen R. Covey
Organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization. -- Stephen R. Covey
Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. -- Stephen R. Covey
The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. -- Stephen R. Covey
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do, -- Stephen R. Covey
responsibility - "response-ability" - the ability to choose your response. -- Stephen R. Covey
We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts. -- Stephen R. Covey
we're responsible for our own lives. -- Stephen R. Covey
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances -- Stephen R. Covey
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. -- Stephen R. Covey
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. -- Stephen R. Covey
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 only person I know, is the person I want to be -- Stephen R. Covey
People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them. -- Stephen R. Covey
Interdependence is the paradigm of we - we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together. -- Stephen R. Covey
One of the most inspirational people I have ever known is Viktor Frankl, -- Stephen R. Covey
The organization does not have to be at the mercy of the environment; it can take the initiative to accomplish the shared values and purposes of the individuals involved. -- Stephen R. Covey
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. -- Stephen R. Covey
Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together. -- Stephen R. Covey
Only basic goodness gives life to technique. To -- Stephen R. Covey
When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years. -- Stephen R. Covey
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, -- Stephen R. Covey
The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act -- Stephen R. Covey
The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience. -- Stephen R. Covey
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. -- Stephen R. Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -- Stephen R. Covey
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic -- Stephen R. Covey
The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read. -- Stephen R. Covey
more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed. -- Stephen R. Covey
Out of his private victories, public victories began to come. -- Stephen R. Covey
Being is seeing in the human dimension. -- Stephen R. Covey
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive, -- Stephen R. Covey
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. -- Stephen R. Covey
If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own. -- Stephen R. Covey
Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. I -- Stephen R. Covey
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. -- Stephen R. Covey
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. -- Stephen R. Covey
Where we stand depends on where we sit. -- Stephen R. Covey
