The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life! — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women… — 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
Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves… — 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
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative… — 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 you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental,… — 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
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and… — 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
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because… — 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
By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that… — 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
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
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
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
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
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
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires… — Stephen Covey Copy Share
