Stephen Covey

"Love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb."

- Stephen Covey

"The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected, and internalized values."

- Stephen Covey

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles."

- Stephen Covey

"Unless you're continually improving your skills, you're quickly becoming irrelevant."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Begin with the end in mind."

- Stephen Covey

"Without trust we don’t truly collaborate; we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate. It is trust that transforms a group of people into a team."

- Stephen Covey

"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."

- Stephen Covey

"Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

""Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.""

- Stephen Covey

"Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

- Stephen Covey

"What you do has far greater impact than what you say."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Accountability breeds response-ability."

- Stephen Covey

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. We all know it. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character."

- Stephen Covey

"We are all interdependent. None of us can go it alone."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- 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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce—to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth."

- Stephen Covey

""Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce—to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth.""

- Stephen Covey

"If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."

- Stephen Covey

"Only the disciplined are truly free. The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites, and passions."

- Stephen Covey

"Only the disciplined are truly free. The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Once you have a clear idea of your priorities – that is your values, goals and high leverage activities, organize around them"

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"The key is not to proritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Stephen Covey

"Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy."

- 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 greatest risk is the risk of riskless living."

- Stephen Covey

"Affirmation and visualization are forms of programming, and we must ensure they align with correct principles."

- Stephen Covey

"Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to. We’re talking about three to six hours a week – or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 – 165 hours of the week."

- Stephen Covey

"Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to."

- Stephen Covey

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities — that is your values, goals, and high-leverage activities, organize around them."

- Stephen Covey

"Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context."

- Stephen Covey

"Seek first to understand. Then to be understood."

- Stephen Covey

"When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems."

- Stephen Covey

"When you show deep empathy for others, their defensive energy goes down."

- Stephen Covey

"The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too."

- Stephen Covey