Stephen Covey Quotes
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.
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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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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
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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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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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What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
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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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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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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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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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Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.
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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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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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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.
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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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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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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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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.