Stephen Covey Quotes
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In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
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we're responsible for our own lives.
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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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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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I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
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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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We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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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.
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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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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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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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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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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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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.
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Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
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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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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.