Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your… — 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
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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
If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can… — 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
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something.… — 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
