“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 Copy Share Image
“beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person’s character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.” — 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
“[W]isdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage. In fact, you could… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow… — 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
