Stephen Covey Quotes
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.
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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.
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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
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Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
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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.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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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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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
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All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.