Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
