Want Quotes by Stephen Covey

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

— Stephen Covey

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

— Stephen Covey

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

— Stephen Covey

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

— Stephen Covey

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

— Stephen Covey

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on…

— Stephen Covey

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of…

— Stephen Covey

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

— Stephen Covey

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

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

— Stephen Covey

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

— 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

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees…

— Stephen Covey

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising…

— Stephen Covey

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to…

— 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

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is,…

— Stephen Covey

When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise…

— Stephen Covey

If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But…

— Stephen Covey

All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental,…

— Stephen Covey

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that…

— Stephen Covey

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

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps…

— 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

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

Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms…

— Stephen Covey

You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then…

— Stephen Covey

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy…

— Stephen Covey

It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something.…

— 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

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

Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study…

— Stephen Covey