“wife and children any more. I’m not even sure I know myself and what’s really important to me. I’ve had to ask… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to… — 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 want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share
“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 supremely important. The distorted and ever-changing social mirror becomes the source for the four life-support factors, creating a high degree of dependence on the fluctuating moods, feelings, attitudes, and behavior of others.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share
“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
