Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.
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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
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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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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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Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change. The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.
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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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Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
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People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.
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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
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True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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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.