Stephen Covey Quotes
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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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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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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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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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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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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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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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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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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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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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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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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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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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.