Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
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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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Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.
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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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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
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By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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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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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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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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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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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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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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The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.
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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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'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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I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
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By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.