Stephen Covey Quotes
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
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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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To know and not to do is not to know.
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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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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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make.
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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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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
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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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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest.