Stephen Covey Quotes
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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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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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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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 greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."
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It's better to be trusted than to be liked.