Stephen Covey

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

— Stephen Covey

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

— Stephen Covey

What is common sense isn't common practice.

— Stephen Covey

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.

— Stephen Covey

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

— Stephen Covey

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

— Stephen Covey

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

— Stephen Covey

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

— Stephen Covey

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

— Stephen Covey

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

— Stephen Covey

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

— Stephen Covey

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life.…

— Stephen Covey

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

— Stephen Covey

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no…

— Stephen Covey

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

— Stephen Covey

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

— Stephen Covey

Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you…

— Stephen Covey

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers…

— Stephen Covey

When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and…

— Stephen Covey

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of…

— Stephen Covey

In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether…

— Stephen Covey

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get…

— Stephen Covey

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution…

— Stephen Covey

“There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer…

— Stephen Covey

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.…

— Stephen Covey

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes…

— Stephen Covey

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per…

— Stephen Covey

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act…

— Stephen Covey

Do what is important, not what is urgent.

— Stephen Covey

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

— Stephen Covey

Difference is the beginning of synergy.

— Stephen Covey

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

— Stephen Covey

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

— Stephen Covey

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

— Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

— Stephen Covey

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

— Stephen Covey

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

— Stephen Covey

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

— Stephen Covey

It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

— Stephen Covey

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

— Stephen Covey