Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Organize and execute around priorities.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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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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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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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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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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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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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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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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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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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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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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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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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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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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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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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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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.