Stephen Covey Quotes
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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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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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Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.
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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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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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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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Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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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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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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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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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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Difference is the beginning of synergy.
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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
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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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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.