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Effective Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
- The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It…
- In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center…
- Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person…
- The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through…
- Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by…
- It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder…
- If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be…
- Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
- If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a…
- Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education…
- Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever…
- "If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a…
- It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
- Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
- When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
- We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
- Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions.…
- We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in…
- In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is…
- Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
- The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can…
- The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our…
More Effective Quotes
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is… — Arnold Bennett
- A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn. — John Bercow
- It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by… — Alfred Adler
- A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the… — Annie Besant
- As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's… — Anthony Bourdain
- I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive. — Jo Brand