Stephen Covey Quotes
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The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.
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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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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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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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While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.
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Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
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When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
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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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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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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.