Stephen Covey Quotes
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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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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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
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Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
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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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True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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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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Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
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I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.
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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
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Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
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When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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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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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.