Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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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 key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
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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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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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One thing about trust is that everyone's for it.