Stephen Covey Quotes
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
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The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make.
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We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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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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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.
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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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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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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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All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.
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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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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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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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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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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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When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.