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
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
Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. — 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
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
Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. — 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
People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down… — 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
In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow! — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom… — 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
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
