Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love. — 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
Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another. — 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
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is not worth living,’ observed Plato. But the number of people who come out of our leadership development programs… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 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
Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a… — 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
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice. — 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
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life. — 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
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
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
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. — 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