We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what… — 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
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price… — 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
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — 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
