Stephen R. Covey

“It’s not logical; it’s psychological.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“man you might like to take her out. If you were”

— Stephen R. Covey

“what is most personal ,is most general.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“How accurately and functionally”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Start with the end in mind. ”

— Stephen R. Covey

“It is character that communicates most eloquently.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“But you can’t change the fruit without changing the root.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Stephen R. Covey

“What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It”

— Stephen R. Covey

“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“We can’t go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves.…

— Stephen R. 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…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Animals do not possess this ability. We call it “self-awareness” or the ability to think about your very thought process.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring…

— Stephen R. Covey

“My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped up in their work, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to…

— Stephen R. Covey

“When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their…

— Stephen R. Covey

“systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It’s almost as if these principles or natural laws are…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than…

— Stephen R. Covey

“As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently…

— Stephen R. Covey

“It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today’s world in four critical areas—physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You…

— Stephen R. Covey

“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.…

— Stephen R. Covey

“The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Renewing our social/emotional dimension does not take time in the same sense that renewing the other dimensions does. We can do it…

— Stephen R. Covey

“A personal mission statement is based on Habit Two of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People called “Begin with the End…

— Stephen R. Covey

“power of the personal mission statement lies in your vision and in a commitment to that vision, that purpose, and those principle-centered…

— Stephen R. Covey

“The net effect of opening the “gate of change” to the first three habits—the habits of Private Victory—will be significantly increased self-confidence.…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Think about taking a trip on an airplane. Before taking off, the pilot has a very clear destination in mind, which hopefully…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.…

— Stephen R. Covey

“One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of…

— Stephen R. Covey

“This Personality Ethic essentially took two paths: one was human and public relations techniques, and the other was positive mental attitude (PMA).…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Deathbed confession or mere ordinance work do not change man’s nature. This is the reason Satan’s plan to force everyone to be…

— Stephen R. Covey