Stephen Covey Quotes
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Organize and execute around priorities.
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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 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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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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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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Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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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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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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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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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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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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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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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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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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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.