Goals Quotes by Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

— Stephen Covey

Life is a mission, not a career.

— Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

— Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

— Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

— Stephen Covey

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of…

— Stephen Covey

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which…

— 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

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to…

— Stephen Covey

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others…

— Stephen Covey

Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust…

— Stephen Covey

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the…

— Stephen Covey

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your…

— 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

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

— Stephen Covey

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy…

— Stephen Covey

It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something.…

— Stephen Covey

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always…

— 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

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

— Stephen Covey

An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into…

— 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