Stephen Covey Quotes
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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 you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
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It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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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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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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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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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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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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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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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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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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If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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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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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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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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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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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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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you