Persons Quotes by Stephen Covey

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

— Stephen Covey

Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

— Stephen Covey

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

— Stephen Covey

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

— Stephen Covey

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

— Stephen Covey

What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you

— Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and…

— Stephen Covey

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person…

— Stephen Covey

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving…

— Stephen Covey

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the…

— Stephen Covey

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic…

— Stephen Covey

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing…

— Stephen Covey

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that…

— Stephen Covey

You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop…

— Stephen Covey

When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then…

— Stephen Covey

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming…

— Stephen Covey

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about…

— Stephen Covey

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you…

— Stephen Covey

I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and…

— Stephen Covey

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined…

— Stephen Covey

Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to…

— 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

The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance,…

— Stephen Covey

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always…

— Stephen Covey

People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see…

— Stephen Covey

The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can…

— Stephen Covey

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual…

— 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