Goal Quotes by Stephen Covey

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

— Stephen Covey

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

— Stephen Covey

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

— Stephen Covey

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

— Stephen Covey

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

— Stephen Covey

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize,…

— Stephen Covey

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

— Stephen Covey

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

— Stephen Covey

You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then…

— Stephen Covey

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody…

— Stephen Covey

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps…

— Stephen Covey

As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace…

— Stephen Covey

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly,…

— Stephen Covey

All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life…

— Stephen Covey

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock…

— Stephen Covey

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price…

— Stephen Covey