Stephen Covey Quotes

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities

لكي تكون سباقاً يجب أن تعمل على تغيير الظروف بما يخدم أهدافك ، لا أن تغير أهدافك وفقاً لما تمليه الظروف

When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.

Our choices make the legacy to our children.

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.

A tendency that’s run through your family for generations can stop with you. You’re a transition person – a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Best's enemy is Good.

If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you’ll get my meaning anyway. You won’t make me “an offender for a word.” When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

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

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

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be

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

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.