Stephen Covey Quotes And Sayings

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“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”
– Stephen Covey

“The only person I know, is the person I want to be”
– Stephen Covey

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen Covey

“We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.”
– Stephen Covey

“…people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”
– Stephen Covey

“We can’t live without eating, but we don’t live to eat.”
– Stephen Covey

“Don’t argue for other people‘s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”
– Stephen Covey

“To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”
– Stephen Covey

“The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”
– Stephen Covey

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”
– Stephen Covey

“But borrowing strength builds weakness.”
– Stephen Covey

“we’re responsible for our own lives.”
– Stephen Covey

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
– Stephen Covey

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.”
– Stephen Covey

“We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people’s definition of you.”
– Stephen Covey

“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.”
– Stephen Covey

“Being is seeing in the human dimension.”
– Stephen Covey

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
– Stephen Covey

“If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day–in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.”
– Stephen Covey

“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”
– Stephen Covey

“Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.”
– Stephen Covey

“They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.”
– Stephen Covey

“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.”
– Stephen Covey

“The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.”
– Stephen Covey

“I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.”
– Stephen Covey

“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”
– Stephen Covey

“The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.”
– Stephen Covey

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

“A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.”
– Stephen Covey

“It’s sometimes a painful process. It’s a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.”
– Stephen Covey

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