Stephen Covey Quotes
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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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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A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
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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 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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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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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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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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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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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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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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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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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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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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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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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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It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
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What is common sense isn't common practice.