Stephen Covey Quotes
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.
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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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Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.
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I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.
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I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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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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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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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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Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.