“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.” — 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… — 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
“My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.” — 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
“[W]isdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage. In fact, you could… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken. As Cecil B. DeMille observed of the principles contained in… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Integrity also means avoiding any communication that is deceptive, full of guile, or beneath the dignity of people. “A lie is any… — 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
