63 result(s) for Stephen Covey Quotes.
"You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into."
"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
"We see the world, not as it is, but as we are."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"I am personally challenged to overcome intellectual arrogance – to get out of my own box and see the world from other perspectives."
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"All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things."
"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
"The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about, and what you value."
"Every living thing is created unique. Each one of us fulfills a special destiny, a special purpose, a special mission."
"Love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb."
"If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters."
"Habit is the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire."
"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it."
"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."
"The greatest enemy to human potential is your comfort zone."
"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."
"Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological."
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"Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose."
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, unapologetically—to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside."
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
"We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."
"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 accomplish goals."
"Without principle, a richer inventory of skills would only mean more ways to fail with style."
"Begin with the end in mind."
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule but to schedule your priorities."
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say 'no' to other things."
"If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster."
"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."
"I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow."
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"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it."
"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."
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."
"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."
"The greatest battle of our generation is to direct our behavior, our attitudes, and our patterns of living — consistently with our deep values."
"Leadership is communicating to another person their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves."
"The way we see the problem is the problem."
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
"There are three constants in life... change, choice, and principles."
"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication."
"To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."
"If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvements, work on practices. If you want to make significant, quantum improvements, work on paradigms."
"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."
"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."
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
"I am personally persuaded that the missing link in our theories, the key to the implementation of principle-centered leadership, is in that overlap between the heart and the skill."
"The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves."
"The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
"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."
"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."
"Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological."
"The only way to change someone is to become the change you want to see."
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