Stephen Covey Quotes
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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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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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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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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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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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
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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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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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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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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success