Stephen Covey Quotes
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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
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
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 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
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
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
Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
— 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
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
You can't have the fruits without the roots.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
— Stephen Covey
