Stephen Covey Quotes
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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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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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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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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If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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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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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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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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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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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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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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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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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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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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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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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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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.