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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The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
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Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
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People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
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At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
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Priority is a function of context.
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When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.
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Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
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How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
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Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.