Stephen Covey Quotes
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
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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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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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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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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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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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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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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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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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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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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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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.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
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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.