Stephen Covey Quotes
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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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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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If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.
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We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
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Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
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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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The only person I know, is the person I want to be
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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
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Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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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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We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
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You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
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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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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
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Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?