Stephen Covey Quotes
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Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
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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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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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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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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
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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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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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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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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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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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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.