Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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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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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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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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What is common sense isn't common practice.
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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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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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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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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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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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I think that respect for people is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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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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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.