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
Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental… — 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
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to… — 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
