Stephen R. Covey Quotes

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

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.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

It comes from within.

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

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.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

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.

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.

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.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

Start with the end in mind.

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

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.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

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

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

Where westand depends on where we sit.

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,