Stephen Covey Quotes
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Organize and execute around priorities.
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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
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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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The only person I know, is the person I want to be
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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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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 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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In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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.
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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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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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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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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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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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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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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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.