“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
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“This brings into focus one of the basic flaws of the Personality Ethic. To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Success became more a function of personality, of public image, of attitudes and behaviors, skills and techniques, that lubricate the processes of… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today’s world in four critical areas—physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You… — 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
“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
“We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people’s agendas, of… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“I have personally found living the 7 Habits a constant struggle—primarily because the better you get, the very nature of the challenge… — 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
