Stephen Covey Quotes

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

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.

Change Freedom Power Imagination

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

Priorities Key Your Schedule

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Eyes Feelings Listen Your

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

Life Communication Trust Most

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.

Culture People You Cheating

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.

Positive You Problems Empathy

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

Character Adversity Challenges Just

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

Success Leadership Management Ladder

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

Integrity Respect Honesty People

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

Understand Reply Listen Intent

Top 10
Stephen Covey
Quotes

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Leadership Choice Position

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Accountability Breeds

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

Leadership Discipline Management Out

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Strength Differences Similarities

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

Mistake Learn Proactive Approach

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

Better Way Your Than

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Voice Inspire Find Your Others

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

Goals You Achieve Stop

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.

Great Challenge Result Ideas

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Deepest Desire Human Human Spirit

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

Spiritual Identity True Financial

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

Yourself You Problems Way

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

Life Responsibility Important Key

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

Experience Spiritual Remember Human

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

Doing Going Keep Getting

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

Keep Thing Main Main Thing

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