Stephen Covey Quotes
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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.
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Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
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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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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
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Difference is the beginning of synergy.
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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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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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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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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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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People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
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Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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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.
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We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.