Stephen Covey Quotes
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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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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Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
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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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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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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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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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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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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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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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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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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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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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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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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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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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You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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.