Stephen Covey Quotes
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
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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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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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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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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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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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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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At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
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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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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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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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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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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.