“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“This Personality Ethic essentially took two paths: one was human and public relations techniques, and the other was positive mental attitude (PMA).… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Educating the heartis the critical complement to educating the mind.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that’s what they are. They volunteer the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today’s world in four critical areas—physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Family-centered parents do not have the emotional freedom, the power, to raise their children with their ultimate welfare truly in mind. If… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves.… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche: “He who has a ‘why’ can live with any ‘what.’” Dr. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature:… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Where we stand depends on where we sit." Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots of Fire… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“FRIEND/ENEMY CENTEREDNESS. Young people are particularly, though certainly not exclusively, susceptible to becoming friend-centered. Acceptance and belonging to a peer group can become almost… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
