Stephen Covey Quotes
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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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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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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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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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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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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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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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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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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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when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
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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.
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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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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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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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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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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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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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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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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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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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What is common sense isn't common practice.