Stephen Covey Quotes
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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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 power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
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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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I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it.
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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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We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
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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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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.
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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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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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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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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
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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.