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

Stephen Covey Quotes

American - Businessman October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

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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

Change, Freedom, Power

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

Life, Communication, Trust

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

Positive, Deep, Empathy

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

Key, Priorities, Prioritize

Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey

Leadership is a choice, not a position. Stephen Covey

Leadership, Choice, Position

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply. - Stephen Covey

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply. Stephen Covey

Understand, Listen, Intent

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

Leadership, Management

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

Leadership, Success

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. - Stephen Covey

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. Stephen Covey

Inspire, Voice, Find

Listen with your eyes for feelings. - Stephen Covey

Listen with your eyes for feelings. Stephen Covey

Eyes, Feelings, Listen

Accountability breeds response-ability. - Stephen Covey

Accountability breeds response-ability. Stephen Covey

Accountability, Breeds

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. Stephen Covey

Adversity, Character

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

Learn, Mistake, Proactive

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. Stephen Covey

Great, Challenge, Ideas

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. - Stephen Covey

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey

Strength, Differences, Lies

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

Culture, People, Cheating

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. - Stephen Covey

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

Life, Change, Choice

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

Giving, Understanding, View

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. Stephen Covey

Respect, Integrity, Honesty

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, Responsibility, Key

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. Stephen Covey

Way, Better, Synergy

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. Stephen Covey

Goals, Plan, Fantasy

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

Doing, Going, Keep

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. Stephen Covey

Life, Vision, Constitution

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. Stephen Covey

Life, Job, Meaningful

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. Stephen Covey

Life, Contribution, About

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