Stephen Covey Quotes And Sayings

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“Inside-Out” means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self — with your paradigms, your character, and your motives”
– Stephen Covey

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

“The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act”
– Stephen Covey

“what is most personal ,is most general.”
– Stephen Covey

“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.”
– Stephen Covey

“We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently”
– Stephen Covey

“Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.”
– Stephen Covey

“Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth — a knowledge of things as they are.”
– Stephen Covey

“You can buy a person’s hand, but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can’t buy his brain. That’s where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness.”
– Stephen Covey

“…churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that surround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.”
– Stephen Covey

“Happiness – in part at least – the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want for what we want eventually”
– Stephen Covey

“Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won’t be good leaders or team players”
– Stephen Covey

“If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.”
– Stephen Covey

“Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It’s not logical: it’s psychological. And it’s very real.”
– Stephen Covey

“If you don’t let a teacher know what level you are — by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance — you will not learn or grow”
– Stephen Covey

“Educating the heart is the critical complement to educating the mind.”
– Stephen Covey

“Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.”
– Stephen Covey

“Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?…True effectiveness requires balance.”
– Stephen Covey

“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”
– Stephen Covey

“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.”
– Stephen Covey

“Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism — anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.”
– Stephen Covey

“When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.”
– Stephen Covey

“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions”
– Stephen Covey

“People who exercise their freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ‘being lived.’ [That is, until] they are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.”
– Stephen Covey

“What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”
– Stephen Covey

“Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!”
– Stephen Covey

“Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!”
– Stephen Covey

“Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three”
– Stephen Covey

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

“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.”
– Stephen Covey

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