“True discipline means channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense. “Everyone” might say finishing Harvard… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“I’ve set and met my career goals and I’m having tremendous professional success. But it’s cost me my personal and family life.… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans,… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“wife and children any more. I’m not even sure I know myself and what’s really important to me. I’ve had to ask… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“A personal mission statement is based on Habit Two of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People called “Begin with the End… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“power of the personal mission statement lies in your vision and in a commitment to that vision, that purpose, and those principle-centered… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“you understand the purpose of a personal mission statement. It is the picture of where you want to end up—that is, your… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves.… — 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
