Stephen Covey Quotes
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.
Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.
Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.