If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but… — 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
Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Image
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
