Stephen Covey Quotes

leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA

There will be real happiness, peace of mind and balance, when living by heart and right-mindedly.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

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.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Make your life work instead of making life full of work.

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities — what we do with, and how we manage our time.

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, “If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not a product of how other people treat us. They unquestionably influence us, but they do not determine us. We are self-determining through our choices. If we have given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future also?

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, “How much did he leave?” His friend responded, “He left it all.

captain then called to the signalman, “Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change

Look at the word responsibility — “response-ability” — the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.