Life Quotes by Stephen Covey

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

— Stephen Covey

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

— Stephen Covey

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

— Stephen Covey

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

— Stephen Covey

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

— Stephen Covey

Life is a mission, not a career.

— Stephen Covey

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

— Stephen Covey

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

— Stephen Covey

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

— Stephen Covey

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

— Stephen Covey

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on…

— Stephen Covey

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

— Stephen Covey

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

— Stephen Covey

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

— Stephen Covey

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

— Stephen Covey

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

— Stephen Covey

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to…

— Stephen Covey

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence…

— Stephen Covey

Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves…

— Stephen Covey

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

— Stephen Covey

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing…

— Stephen Covey

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

— Stephen Covey

Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women…

— Stephen Covey

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with…

— Stephen Covey

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about…

— Stephen Covey

I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular…

— Stephen Covey

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at…

— Stephen Covey

When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then…

— Stephen Covey

When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and…

— Stephen Covey

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price…

— Stephen Covey

I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a…

— Stephen Covey

“If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the…

— Stephen Covey

If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant…

— Stephen Covey

“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time…

— Stephen Covey

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

— Stephen Covey

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

— Stephen Covey

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

— Stephen Covey

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

— Stephen Covey

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

— Stephen Covey

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are…

— Stephen Covey