Stephen Covey Quotes

Changing a planning tool or a method won’t create significant change in the results we’re getting in our lives — although the implied promise is that it will. It’s not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it’s questioning the whole assumption of control.

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

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

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

The reality is that most families are overmanaged and underled.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

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

in relationships, the little things are the big things.

Our Behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

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.

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.