Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow! — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the… — 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
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize… — 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
Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Image
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to… — 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
