Stephen Covey Quotes
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.
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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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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
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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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Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.
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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.
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You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.
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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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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.
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Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.
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If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.