Stephen R. Covey Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Stephen R. Covey on Wise Famous Quotes.
One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.
If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs - the eternal student syndrome.
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness or goodness in their character.
When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
I've learned that once children gain a sense of real possession, they share very naturally, freely, and spontaneously.
It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he will become as he can and should be.
he will become as he can and should be.
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people.
If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road.
Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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.
When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.
You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
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.
Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.
Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right
The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.