Stephen Covey Quotes
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People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.
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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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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.
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If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
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...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
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Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.
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Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
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If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
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Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.
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Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.