By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Image
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
