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Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is — Stephen R. Covey

What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn. — Stephen R. Covey

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible. — Stephen R. Covey

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. — Stephen Covey

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character. — Stephen Covey

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent. — Stephen Covey

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past. — Stephen Covey

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. — Stephen Covey

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. — Stephen R. Covey

When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future. — Stephen R. Covey

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. — Stephen Covey

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. — Stephen R. Covey

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. — Stephen R. Covey

You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless. — Stephen Covey

My friend, love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. — Stephen R. Covey

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments. — Stephen Covey

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character. — Stephen R. Covey

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels. — Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. — Stephen Covey

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world. — Stephen Covey

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! — Stephen Covey

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust. — Stephen Covey

You can't live principals you can't understand. — Stephen Covey

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. — Stephen Covey

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road. — Stephen Covey

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get. — Stephen Covey

The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time. — Stephen Covey

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy. — Stephen Covey

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. — Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit — L. David Marquet

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. — Stephen Covey

Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential. — Stephen Covey

Success in one role can't justify failure in another. — Stephen Covey

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others. — Stephen Covey

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know. — Stephen Covey

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen R. Covey

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. — Stephen Covey

Listen with your eyes for feelings. — Stephen Covey

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions. — Stephen Covey

Independent people can get what they want through — Stephen R. Covey

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so. — Stephen Covey

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means. — Stephen Covey

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. — Stephen R. Covey

It's better to be trusted than to be liked. — Stephen Covey

Statement - and then to bring that sense of mission, of purpose, to your — Stephen R. Covey

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them — Stephen Covey

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. — Stephen R. Covey

Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior. — Stephen Covey

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden. — Stephen Covey

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. — Stephen Covey

The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were. — Stephen R. Covey

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. — Tom Peters

There are three constants in life ... change, choice and principles. — Stephen Covey

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. — Stephen R. Covey

Most negotiators are trying to get their way. — Stephen Covey

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced. — Stephen Covey

Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature: — Stephen R. Covey

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important. — Stephen Covey

Without trust, the best we can do is compromise. — Stephen Covey

Patience is emotional diligence. — Stephen Covey

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless. — Stephen Covey

It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances. — Stephen Covey

You can't have the fruits without the roots. — Stephen Covey

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities. — Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services. — Stephen Covey

It comes from within. — Stephen R. Covey

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens — Stephen Covey

The way we see the problem is the problem. — Stephen R. Covey

You have to water the flowers you want to grow. — Stephen R. Covey

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. — Stephen Covey

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things. — Stephen Covey

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. — Stephen Covey

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. — Stephen R. Covey

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it. — Stephen Covey

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. — Stephen Covey

But borrowing strength builds weakness. — Stephen R. Covey

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken. — Stephen R. Covey

I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children's good behavior, and, in our eyes, this son simply didn't measure up. — Stephen R. Covey

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses. — Stephen Covey

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. — Stephen Covey

We can act instead of being acted upon. — Stephen Covey

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together. — Stephen R. Covey

Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it. — Stephen R. Covey

Life is a mission, not a career. — Stephen Covey

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you. — Stephen Covey

Reactive people ... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. — Stephen Covey

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. — Stephen R. Covey

He who has a why can deal with any what or how. — Stephen Covey

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves. — Stephen Covey

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years. — Stephen R. Covey

Mind over mattress. — Stephen Covey

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence — Stephen R. Covey

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted. — Stephen Covey

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. — Stephen R. Covey

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations — Stephen Covey

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. — Stephen Covey

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. — Stephen Covey

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one. — Stephen Covey