Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.
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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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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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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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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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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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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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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.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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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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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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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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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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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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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.