Stephen Covey Quotes
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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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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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You can't live principals you can't understand.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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.