Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Covey

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

— Stephen Covey

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

— Stephen Covey

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

— Stephen Covey

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

— Stephen Covey

We can act instead of being acted upon.

— Stephen Covey

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

— Stephen Covey

Success in one role can't justify failure in another.

— Stephen Covey

The key to motivation is motive.

— Stephen Covey

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

— Stephen Covey

The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves

— Stephen Covey

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

— Stephen Covey

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

— Stephen Covey

People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.

— Stephen Covey

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

— Stephen Covey

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

— Stephen Covey

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

— Stephen Covey

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

— Stephen Covey

We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get…

— Stephen Covey

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

— Stephen Covey

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

— Stephen Covey

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

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

— 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

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing…

— Stephen Covey

“Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If…

— Stephen Covey

It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate…

— Stephen Covey

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

“Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal…

— Stephen Covey

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And…

— Stephen Covey

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors,…

— Stephen Covey

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the…

— Stephen Covey

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

— Stephen Covey

Priority is a function of context.

— Stephen Covey

To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

— Stephen Covey

You can't live principals you can't understand.

— Stephen Covey

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

— Stephen Covey

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

— Stephen Covey

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

— Stephen Covey

Accountability breeds response-ability.

— Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

— Stephen Covey