Stephen Covey Quotes
We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.
Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.
I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.
Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.
There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.
Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.
Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
