Stephen Covey Quotes
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Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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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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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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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 end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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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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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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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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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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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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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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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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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.