Stephen Covey Quotes
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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Interdependence is a higher value than independence
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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.
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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
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If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
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Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
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Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
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Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.
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Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
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I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.