Stephen Covey Quotes

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism — anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.

What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

because more important than how fast you’re going, is where you’re headed.

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.

Your attitude determines your altitude,

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

It comes from within.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

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

You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.