Stephen Covey Quotes
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.
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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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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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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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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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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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What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
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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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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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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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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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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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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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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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when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
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When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.