Stephen Covey Quotes And Sayings

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“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
– Stephen Covey

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
– Stephen Covey

“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”
– Stephen Covey

“[W]isdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage. In fact, you could say that humility is the mother of all virtues because humility acknowledges that there are natural laws or principles that govern the universe. They are in charge. Pride teaches us that we are in charge. Humility teaches us to understand and live by principles, because they ultimately govern the consequences of our actions. If humility is the mother, courage is the father of wisdom. Because to truly live by these principles when they are contrary to social mores, norms and values takes enormous courage.”
– Stephen Covey

“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”
– Stephen Covey

“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.”
– Stephen Covey

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
– Stephen Covey

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”
– Stephen Covey

“Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.”
– Stephen Covey

“Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
– Stephen Covey

“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”
– Stephen Covey

“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
– Stephen Covey

“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
– Stephen Covey

“To know and not to do is really not to know.”
– Stephen Covey

“It comes from within.”
– Stephen Covey

“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.”
– Stephen Covey

“How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
– Stephen Covey

“Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.”
– Stephen Covey

“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”
– Stephen Covey

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
– Stephen Covey

“Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.”
– Stephen Covey

“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
– Stephen Covey

“There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”
– Stephen Covey

“The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there – shared vision and values.”
– Stephen Covey

“My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.”
– Stephen Covey

“..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope…with all of their might.”
– Stephen Covey

“If we do not teach our children, society will. And they-and we-will live with the results.”
– Stephen Covey

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out”
– Stephen Covey

“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.”
– Stephen Covey

“To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”
– Stephen Covey

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