Stephen Covey Quotes

in relationships, the little things are the big things.

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.

Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Because the struggle continues, I retire frequently to the solitude of my own inner self to recommit to win my battles privately, to get my motives straight.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction — what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

! The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them

love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They’re driven by feelings.

Empathy is not sympathy. A sympathy is a form of agreement. Empathy is not agreeing with someone; it is fully, deeply understanding that person, emotionally as well as intellectually.

Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

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

as Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

The reality is that most families are overmanaged and underled.

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.