“We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We can’t go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“as Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“The proactive approach is to change from the inside-out: to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what’s… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“There must be something changeless that is true! When we are anchored and invulnerable down deep, we can be open and vulnerable… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“first build upon a strong core of principles that are not open for continuous change; at the same time, be relentless in… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Sadat was able to use his self-awareness, his imagination and his conscience to exercise personal leadership, to change an essential paradigm, to… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots of Fire… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“FRIEND/ENEMY CENTEREDNESS. Young people are particularly, though certainly not exclusively, susceptible to becoming friend-centered. Acceptance and belonging to a peer group can become almost… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
