Stephen Covey Quotes
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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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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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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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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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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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.
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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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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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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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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You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.