Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?" — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses — 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
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time? — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. — 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
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
Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should… — 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
