Stephen Covey Quotes

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don’t have the character to do it; they don’t own enough of themselves.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world... Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feeling to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

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?

Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration

Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

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

It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach. It transcends the traditional prescriptions of faster, harder, smarter, and more. Rather than offering you another clock, this approach provides you with a compass — because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.

Our choices make the legacy to our children.