Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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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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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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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 the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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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.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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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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You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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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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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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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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 we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.