Stephen Covey Quotes
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Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
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Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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We can act instead of being acted upon.
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If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
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Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.
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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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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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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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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 human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
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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 only person I know, is the person I want to be
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.