Motivational Quotes: Stephen Covey

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"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

Stephen Covey

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."

Stephen Covey

"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

Stephen Covey

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. "

Stephen Covey

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

Stephen Covey

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Stephen Covey

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

Stephen Covey

"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."

Stephen Covey

"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."

Stephen Covey

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. "

Stephen Covey

"We have the power of choice."

Stephen Covey

"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."

Stephen Covey

"When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence."

Stephen Covey

"The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things."

Stephen Covey

"Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution."

Stephen Covey

"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character."

Stephen Covey

"Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for."

Stephen Covey

"Leadership is a choice, not a position."

Stephen Covey

"Begin with the end in mind."

Stephen Covey

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response."

Stephen Covey

"Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism."

Stephen Covey

"Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem."

Stephen Covey

"Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs."

Stephen Covey

"I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine."

Stephen Covey

"I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching."

Stephen Covey

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

"If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions."

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply."

Stephen Covey

"Listen with your eyes for feelings."

Stephen Covey

"Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

Stephen Covey

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

Stephen Covey

"Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them."

Stephen Covey

"The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life."

Stephen Covey

"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it."

Stephen Covey

"The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual."

Stephen Covey

"We become what we repeatedly do."

Stephen Covey

"We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles."

Stephen Covey

"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."

Stephen Covey

"What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart."

Stephen Covey

"You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into."

Stephen Covey

"When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are."

Stephen Covey

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

Stephen Covey