Stephen Covey Quotes
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
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.
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.
All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
