Stephen Covey Quotes
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Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
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The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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You can't live principals you can't understand.
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The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
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If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.
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The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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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.
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Life is a mission, not a career.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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Trust is central to an economy that works.
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.