I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
