Top 850 Quotes From 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)
1. The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.
2. “A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step” and can only be taken one step at a time.”
3. “Start small, make a promise. and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them.”
4. “Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
5. “My own experience with people confirms the point Frankl makes—that the highest of the three values is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.”
6. “As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well – a law as inexorable as gravity.” (306
7. “If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow.”
8. “If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”
9. “We become what we repeatedly do.”
10. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
11. “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
12. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” — Stephen Covey
13. “always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person’s hand, but you can’t buy his heart.”
14. “It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
15. “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”
16. “It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.”
17. Genetic determinism — basically says your grandparents did it to you. Your nature and character go through the generations and you inherited it.
18. “It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s own heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.” (207
19. “If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.” Stephen Covey
20. “You can buy a person’s hands, but you can’t buy his heart.”
21. “Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic.”
22. Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. -Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
23. “People want to be understood. And whatever investment of time it takes to do that will bring much greater returns of time as you work from an accurate understanding of the problems and issues and from the high Emotional Bank Account that results when a person feels deeply understood.” (265
24. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey, author and educator
25. “My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
26. Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey
27. “always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
28. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey.
29. “The key to life is not accumulation. It’s contribution.” ~ Stephen Covey
30. Leadership is a choice, not a position. – Stephen Covey
31. “Be proactive.” Stephen Covey
32. I'm not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey
33. “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.”
34. “Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth – in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words – in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.” (205-206
35. “Begin with the end in mind.”
36. “To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow. This”
37. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” – Stephen Covey
38. “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
39. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.” – Stephen R. Covey
40. “Nuestra conducta es una función de nuestras decisiones, no de nuestras condiciones. Podemos subordinar los sentimientos a los valores. Tenemos la iniciativa y la responsabilidad de hacer que las cosas sucedan.”
41. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
42. “If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy that these possessions may be lost or stolen or devalued.”
43. “David O. McKay taught, “The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
44. “We are the instrument of our own performance”
45. “The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.”
46. “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological.”
47. “three central values in life—the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances”
48. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. ” — Stephen R. Covey
49. “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
50. “In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.”
51. “principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.”
52. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
53. “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
54. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” – Stephen R. Covey
55. “Really seeking to understand another person is probably one of the most important deposits you can make, and it is the key to every other deposit.” (200
56. “He was the master of being “proactive,” and much to our vexation while growing up, we were never allowed to make excuses or blame our circumstances, friends, or teachers for our problems. We were simply taught to “make it happen” or “choose another response.”
57. “People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.”
58. “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smiling, nonapologetically – to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.”
59. “Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life.”
60. “Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
61. “He looked into his own head and thought he saw the world,”
62. “Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. I”
63. “The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.”
64. “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
65. “Anything less than Win/Win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship.”
66. “The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act”
67. “in relationships, the little things are the big things.”
68. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.” – Stephen R. Covey
69. "Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?” – Sean Covey
70. “Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.”
71. “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,”
72. “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
73. “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, American educator, author, businessman
74. “Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present. ” – Stephen Covey
75. Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
76. “Independent people can get what they want through”
77. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation.”
78. “The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be”
79. “There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.”
80. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” (97
81. “Roles and goals give structure and organized direction to your personal mission. If you don’t yet have a personal mission statement, it’s a good place to begin.”
82. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.”
83. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker
84. Stephen R. Covey on Effective Leadership.
85. “At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn’t believe in yourself.”
86. “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ― Stephen R. Covey
87. “What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
88. “Go out with your spouse on a regular basis. Have dinner or do something together you both enjoy. Listen to each other; seek to understand.”
89. “It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And”
90. “The proactive approach is to change from the inside-out: to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what’s out there—I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.”
91. “If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to.”
92. “Anytime we think the problem is “out there,” that thought is the problem. We empower what’s out there to control us. The change paradigm is “outside-in”—what’s out there has to change before we can change. The”
93. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE”
94. “People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.”
95. “Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.”
96. “as Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
97. “You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.”
98. “I am not a product of my circumstances; I am a product of my decisions.”
99. “A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.” – Stephen Covey
100. “You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness.”
101. The taproot of trust. Executive Excellence, 8(12
102. “Frankl says we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I like that choice of words. I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make. In”
103. “churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.”
104. “A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.” ―Sean Covey
105. First things first. EXECUTIVE EXCELLENCE, 11, 3-3.
106. “There are times when transformation requires no outside counsel. Often when people are really given the chance to open up, they unravel their own problems and the solutions become clear to them in the process.” (263
107. “people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”
108. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.” Stephen Covey
109. “The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness. When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.”
110. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” Stephen Covey
111. “I’ve set and met my career goals and I’m having tremendous professional success. But it’s cost me my personal and family life. I don’t know my wife and children anymore. I’m not even sure I know myself and what’s really important to me. I’ve had to ask myself—is it worth it?”
112. “Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.”
113. “But I think the most important aspect of The 7 Habits—what makes it not just practical, but profound—is its emphasis on building character rather than “attaining success.” There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.”
114. “Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
115. “Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”
116. “Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren’t doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? Question 2: What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?”
117. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” —Stephen Covey, educator and businessman
118. “It is character that communicates most eloquently."
119. “The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility.
120. “…every Goliath can be overcome.”
121. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
122. “Culpar a los demás y al entorno de nuestros problemas y dificultades puede convertirse en una norma; puede atenuar temporalmente nuestro dolor, pero al mismo tiempo nos encadena a esos mismos problemas. Muéstrenme”
123. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” Stephen Covey
124. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.” – Stephen R. Covey
125. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey
126. The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
127. “Emerson once put it, “What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”
128. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
129. “Accountability breeds response-ability.” ~ Stephen Covey
130. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
131. “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”
132. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
133. “In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset -- a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment.”
134. “If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results.”
135. “Where we stand depends on where we sit."
136. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”- Stephen Covey.
137. “Put first things first.” Stephen Covey
138. “Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.”
139. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.” – Stephen Covey
140. “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve”
141. “The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence.” —Stephen M.R. Covey”
142. “Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped up in their work, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to prevent them from continuing in it.”
143. “So often the problem is in the system, not in the people. If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”
144. “It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.”
145. “Our language, for example, is a very real indicator of the degree to which we see ourselves as proactive people.”
146. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.”
147. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. ” - Stephen Covey
148. “It is character that communicates most eloquently.”
149. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
150. How to succeed with people. Shadow Mountain.
151. “efectividad reside en el equilibrio, en lo que denomino el equilibrio P/CP. «P» es la producción de los resultados deseados, los huevos de oro. «CP» es la capacidad de producción, la aptitud o el medio que produce los huevos de oro.”
152. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” - Stephen Covey
153. “Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.” Charles Boustany
154. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
155. ″What matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.″
156. “…If you were to fault yourself in one of these three areas, which would it be: (1) the ability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities, or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them, to stay with your priorities and organization?”
157. “if you don’t know yourself, if you don’t control yourself, if you don’t have mastery over yourself, it’s very hard to like yourself,”
158. “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.”
159. The Divine Center. Bookcraft Pubs.
160. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey
161. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else trie to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” Stephen Covey
162. “We share in the spirit embodied in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer, “Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
163. “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
164. “Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” — Stephen Covey
165. “probably know someone whose energy is devoted to justifying his or her position in an ongoing negative relationship. If you look, you can sometimes see beyond behavior into the center that creates it.”
166. “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen Covey
167. “The only thing that endures over time is the Law of the Farm. You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water it if you expect to reap the harvest.” Stephen Covey
168. I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey
169. “Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.”
170. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.”
171. “…murder is suicide, …anger is a two-edged sword.”
172. 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 R. Covey
173. “Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to”
174. The seven habits of highly effective people. Journal of Et Nursing, 19(3
175. “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities “ – Stephen Covey, Marketeer and motivational speaker
176. “Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It’s our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to “walk our talk.”
177. “…if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.” (39
178. “Universal principles or natural laws, such as responsibility, integrity, abundance and renewal”
179. “We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.”
180. “Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually”
181. “One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.” ~ Stephen Covey
182. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. ” — Stephen Covey
183. “Things were going to get worse before they got better, and everyone knew it.”
184. “The attitude was “If a person of your intelligence and competence and commitment disagrees with me, then there must be something to your disagreement that I don’t understand, and I need to understand it. You have a perspective, a frame of reference I need to look”
185. “Our new paradigm was created as we invested in the growth and development of our own character.”
186. “You can pretty well summarize the first three habits with the expression “make and keep a promise.” And you can pretty well summarize the next three habits with the expression “involve others in the problem and work out the solution together.”
187. “Eventually, if there isn’t deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationship failure will replace short-term success.”
188. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. - Stephen Covey
189. “Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.” Gordon B. Hinckley
190. “Live Your Life By A Compass Not By A Clock.” – Stephen Covey
191. “Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
192. “But the greatest opportunities and boundless accomplishments of the Knowledge Worker Age are reserved for those who master the art of “we.”
193. “Sharpen the Saw” is about continuous improvement in the personal and interpersonal spheres of influence.
194. “Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players”
195. “If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” –Stephen Covey
196. “If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.”
197. “He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn’t reserve a plot for weeds.”
198. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” — Stephen R. Covey
199. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience. ” — Stephen R. Covey
200. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.' – Stephen Covey
201. “True discipline means channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense.”
202. CNN. 41106. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
203. “Suppose you want your daughter to have a clean room—that’s P, production, the golden egg. And suppose you want her to clean it—that’s PC, production capability.”
204. Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. -Stephen Covey
205. “Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.”
206. “Personality and Character Ethics,”
207. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” –Stephen Covey
208. Stephen R. Covey on the Meaning of Leadership.
209. “It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.”
210. “Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it- immediately.”
211. “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
212. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey
213. “Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
214. “Listen twice as much as you speak.”
215. The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility. - Author: Stephen M.R. Covey
216. “Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present. ” —Stephen Covey, author and businessman
217. “there are times to teach and times not to teach.”
218. “It comes from within.”
219. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” Stephen Covey
220. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective” – Stephen R. Covey
221. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
222. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
223. “But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won’t be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions.”
224. Three roles of the leader in the new paradigm. The leader of the future, 149-160.
225. “Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation, to all things.”
226. “Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.” – Stephen Covey
227. “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.”
228. “If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow”
229. ″As Marilyn Ferguson observed, ‘No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.’ ″
230. “that no one can hurt me without my consent,”
231. “I am the creative force of my life.”
232. “To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which “life” is made.” ~ Stephen Covey
233. “But borrowing strength builds weakness.”
234. “Strategies for Influence” explores and shares the BIG IDEAS from the Leaders of Influence that can help you with your Career, Business, and Leadership. Click on any of the links below to explore the Big Ideas that have influenced our work and culture.
235. “In the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
236. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ”
237. “organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization.”
238. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. ” — Stephen Covey
239. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes.”
240. “Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world.”
241. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”– Stephen Covey
242. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” – Stephen R. Covey
243. “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
244. “Proactive people aren’t pushy. They’re smart, they’re value driven, they read reality, and they know what’s needed. Look at Gandhi.”
245. “Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken. As Cecil B. DeMille observed of the principles contained in his monumental movie, The Ten Commandments, “It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.” While”
246. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” –Stephen Covey
247. “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 R. Covey
248. ″The more people are into quick fix and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition.″
249. “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.”
250. “It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce, stunting the development of independent reasoning, growth, and internal discipline. And finally, it builds weakness in the relationship. Fear replaces cooperation, and both people involved become more arbitrary and defensive.”
251. “Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.”
252. “It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.” —Stephen Covey”
253. “If you don’t let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow.”
254. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.' – Stephen R. Covey
255. “Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy – leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders.” – Stephen R. Covey
256. First things first. Simon and Schuster.
257. Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success. Simon and Schuster.
258. “Win/Win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.”
259. “God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.”
260. Environmental determinism — basically says your boss is doing to you — or your spouse, or that bratty teenager, or your economic situation, or national policies. Someone or something in your environment is responsible for your situation.
261. [Favorite Quote]: “It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
262. “Ironically…as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you.” (69
263. “To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.”
264. “Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don’t tell them what to do.”
265. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” ~ Stephen Covey
266. “Accountability breeds response-ability.” – Stephen R. Covey
267. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” -Stephen Covey, author
268. “Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.”
269. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU”
270. “BODY - cultural tendency: maintain lifestyle; treat health problems with surgery and medication / Principle; prevent diseases and problems by aligning lifestyle to be in harmony with established, universally accepted principles of health.
271. “I don’t define leadership as becoming the CEO. A CEO is no more likely to be a leader than anyone else. I am talking about leading your own life, being a leader among your friends, being a leader in your own family.”
272. “Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.”
273. “It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.”
274. “Most believe that the key to influence is communication—getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don’t you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?”
275. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey
276. “Inside-out” means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self—with your paradigms, your character, and your motives.”
277. “My experience tells me that people instinctively trust those whose personality is founded upon correct principles.”
278. “Covey found a similar pattern in personal effectiveness: first build upon a strong core of principles that are not open for continuous change; at the same time, be relentless in the quest for improvement and continuous self-renewal.”
279. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” - Stephen R. Covey
280. “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
281. “What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”
282. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
283. “They had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.”
284. “By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.”
285. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground."
286. Borrowing strength builds weakness.”
287. “Accountability breeds responsibility.” – Stephen Covey
288. “We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” ~ Stephen Covey
289. Living the Seven Habits. ISBN 0-684-85716-2.
290. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” ~ Stephen Covey
291. “Only basic goodness gives life to technique.”
292. “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” -Stephen Covey
293. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
294. “responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response.”
295. “Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.”
296. “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” That”
297. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”
298. “You can change the fruit without changing the root.” Stephen Covey
299. “As clearly and objectively as we think we see things, we begin to realize that others see them differently from their own apparently equally clear and objective point of view. “Where we stand depends on where we sit.”
300. “Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is their own conscious choice.”
301. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
302. “What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It”
303. “Let people learn from your mistakes or the mistakes of others. Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don’t tell them what to do.”
304. “The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.”
305. “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” – Stephen Covey
306. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Stephen Covey
307. “It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it."
308. “T. S. Eliot expresses so beautifully my own personal discovery and conviction: “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
309. “Animals do not possess this ability. We call it “self-awareness” or the ability to think about your very thought process.”
310. “A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.”
311. “If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.”
312. “It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.”
313. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
314. “If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.”
315. When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. – Stephen R. Covey
316. “It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.”
317. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen Covey
318. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.”
319. “Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.”
320. ″Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.″
321. “Think Win/Win” is about a “win” for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten their way.
322. ”When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. ” – Stephen R. Covey
323. “Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I'll show you the supreme power of choice.”
324. “Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.”
325. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s an essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – Stephen R. Covey
326. “We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
327. “The more people are into quick fixes and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition. The way we see the problem is the problem.”
328. “That’s right. So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I’d choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything.”
329. “Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.”
330. “time management’ is really a misnomer–the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.”
331. “Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”
332. “Proactive people aren’t pushy. They’re smart, they’re value driven, they read reality, and they know what’s needed.”
333. “Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we’re talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.”
334. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey
335. “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.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (313-314
336. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. —Stephen R. Covey, American educator
337. “It shows, first of all, how powerfully conditioning affects our perceptions, and our paradigms. If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?”
338. “A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it’s personal, it’s positive, it’s present tense, it’s visual, and it’s emotional.
339. Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
340. “Our character is basically a composite of our habits because they are consistent. Often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
341. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey
342. “We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.” (105
343. “the real mantra of success is sustainability and growth.”
344. “When the trust is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” ~ Stephen Covey
345. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ~ Stephen Covey
346. “Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.”
347. “Effective leaders are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” -Stephen Covey.
348. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.” — Stephen Covey
349. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” – Stephen R. Covey
350. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air. -Stephen R. Covey
351. The speed of trust: The one thing that changes everything. Simon and Schuster.
352. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
353. “Just listen and seek to understand.”
354. “Rather than focusing on things and time, fourth generation expectations focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results–in short, on maintaining the P/PC Balance.”
355. “Our character is basically a composite of our habits because they are consistent. Often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” Stephen Covey
356. “When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.”
357. “Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.”
358. “The only thing that endures over time is the Law of the Farm. You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water it if you expect to reap the harvest.”
359. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.” Stephen Covey
360. “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
361. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
362. “Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.
363. Servant-leadership from the inside out. Insights on leadership: Service, stewardship, spirit, and servant leadership.
364. “In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.”
365. “I’ve seen unhappy marriages where each spouse wants the other to change, where each is confessing the other’s “sins,” where each is trying to shape up the other.”
366. “Sometimes the most proactive thing we can do is to be happy, just to genuinely smile.”
367. “He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.”
368. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.”
369. “Your attitude determines your altitude,”
370. “Goethe taught, “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.”
371. “In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They’re driven by feelings.”
372. “We can’t go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.”
373. “T. S. Eliot’s observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
374. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” ~ Stephen Covey
375. Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”– Stephen Covey
376. “…cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as competition in the marketplace.” (242
377. Trust is equal parts character and competence ... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other. - Author: Stephen Covey
378. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES”
379. “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” - Stephen Covey
380. You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good."
381. “It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
382. “The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities”
383. “many people break themselves against. This principle can be easily understood by remembering Aesop’s fable of the goose and the golden egg. This fable is the story of a poor farmer who one”
384. “Leadership is affirming people’s worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”
385. “Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration”
386. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
387. “Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present.” — Stephen Covey
388. The key is to not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Stephen R. Covey
389. “love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They’re driven by feelings.”
390. Leading in the knowledge worker age. The leader of the future, 2, 215-226.
391. “Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.”
392. “What you do has greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey
393. “To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.” ~ Stephen Covey
394. “the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
395. The ideal community. In Community of the Future (pp. 49-58
396. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
397. “By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.”
398. “Habit 1: Be Proactive
399. “Hear both sides before judging.”
400. “Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
401. “One person’s mission is another person’s minutiae.”
402. “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
403. The Key Is Not To Prioritise What’s On Your Schedule, But To Schedule Your Priorities. Steven Covey
404. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” –Steven Covey
405. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,’ that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise.’”
406. “Sameness is not oneness; uniformity is not unity… The essence of synergy is to value the differences.” (286
407. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” –Stephen Covey
408. “And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
409. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Network Marketing Professionals. ISBN 978-1-933057-78-1.
410. “We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
411. “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
412. “If I were emotionally dependent, my sense of worth and security would come from your opinion of me.”
413. “Wisdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage.”
414. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ―Stephen Covey
415. “But how do you love when you don’t love?” “My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”
416. "Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” – Stephen R. Covey
417. Spiritual roots of human relations. Deseret Book Co.
418. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
419. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”— Stephen Covey
420. 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
421. “Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
422. “Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.” – Stephen Covey
423. “There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”
424. “If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”
425. “The carpenter’s rule is “measure twice, cut once.”
426. “People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
427. “There are three constants in life – change, choice, and principles.”
428. “Start with the end in mind.”
429. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” –Stephen R. Covey
430. “Begin with the End in Mind” is about envisioning what you want in the future so you can work and plan towards it.
431. “The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the basic habits of effectiveness.”
432. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
433. “When you have No Deal as an option in your mind, you feel liberated because you have no need to manipulate people, to push your own agenda, to drive for what you want. You can be open. You can really try to understand the deeper issues underlying the positions.”
434. “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”
435. Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life. - Author: Stephen R. Covey
436. “Be a light not a judge. Be a model not a choice. be part of the solution not part of the problem.” Stephen Covey
437. “if we can’t make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless. We know it; others know it. They sense duplicity and become guarded.”
438. “You can only achieve Win/Win solutions with Win/Win processes—the end and the means are the same.”
439. “The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.” ~ Stephen Covey
440. Servant-leadership and community leadership in the 21st century. The International Journal of Servant-Leadership, 2(1
441. The 8th habit: From effectiveness to greatness. Simon and Schuster.
442. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience. - Stephen R. Covey
443. “My money will be my servant, not my master”
444. “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 R. Covey
445. “Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.”
446. “Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.”
447. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people” – Stephen Covey; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
448. “Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood” is about using empathetic listening to genuinely understand a person. This, in turn, compels them to reciprocate and take an open mind to be influenced by you.
449. “Anytime we think the problem is “out there,” that thought is the problem. We empower what’s out there to control us.”
450. “There is no real excellence”
451. “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”
452. “real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.”
453. “common sense isn’t always common practice.”
454. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey
455. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey
456. “For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can’t recall them, we can’t undo them, we can’t control the consequences that came as a result.”
457. “We began to realize that 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.”
458. Leadership is a choice, not a position. —Stephen Covey
459. “A menudo «lo bueno» es enemigo de «lo mejor».”
460. “My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.”
461. “The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.”
462. “It’s a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night’s sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.”
463. “if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.”
464. “Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
465. “The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.”
466. “Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.”
467. “Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.” ~ Stephen Covey
468. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.” Stephen Covey
469. “The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.” (289
470. “It is in the ordinary events of every day that we developthe proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life.”
471. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” - Stephen Covey
472. “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right
473. “Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.”
474. Psychic determinism —basically says your parents did it to you. Your upbringing, your childhood experience essentially laid out your personal tendencies and your character structure.
475. “We don’t understand that the acute pain is an outgrowth of the deeper, chronic problem. And until we stop treating the symptoms and start treating the problem, our efforts will only bring counterproductive results. We will only be successful at obscuring the chronic pain even more.”
476. “Being influenceable is the key to influencing others.”
477. “In relationships, the little things are the big things.” – Stephen Covey
478. “If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.”
479. “Setbacks are inevitable; misery is a choice.”
480. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule. but to schedule your priorities” – Stephen R. Covey
481. “Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?” ~ Sean Covey
482. 6 Events: The Restoration Model for Solving Life’s Problems. ISBN 1-57345-187-8.
483. “We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.”
484. “Se puede ser miembro activo de una Iglesia, pero inactivo en la práctica de su evangelio.”
485. “Principles are the territory. Values are maps."
486. “Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.” Stephen Covey
487. “As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
488. Seek first to understand. Then to be understood. – Stephen Covey, Author "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
489. “Think win-win.”
490. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.” ~ Stephen Covey
491. “Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It’s not what they’re not doing or should be doing that’s the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation"
492. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.”
493. “You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”
494. “The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly. correct and learn from it.” – Stephen R. Covey
495. “Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.” - Stephen Covey
496. “It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do, but somehow seldom get around to doing, because they aren’t urgent.”
497. “rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot’s observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
498. “It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And in a high trust culture, it’s much more accurate.”
499. “Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present.” – Stephen Covey
500. “Thousands of people could’ve done what Bill Gates did at that moment, but they didn’t. Gates acted upon the moment.”
501. The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ― Stephen Covey
502. “Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don’t have the character to do it; they don’t own enough of themselves.”
503. “«No somos seres humanos que tienen una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales que tienen una experiencia humana».”
504. “In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
505. “I cam not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions” – Stephen Covey
506. “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.”
507. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
508. “As Emerson once put it, “What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”
509. “How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many because everyone is ultimately a one.”
510. The key is not to prioritize what is on your schedule but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey
511. “Procurar primero entender, y diagnosticar antes de prescribir,”
512. “I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions.” Stephen Covey
513. “If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others.”
514. “Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are not responsible, that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script does not describe the reality. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.”
515. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience, and it doesn’t preclude the necessity to train and develop people so that their competency can rise to the level of that trust.”
516. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions” – Stephen R. Covey.
517. “We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago.”
518. “Listen with your eyes for feelings.” Stephen Covey
519. “To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.”
520. “When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.”
521. The habits of effective organizations. Leader to leader, 1997(3
522. “That leadership is primarily a function of who you are, for this is the foundation for everything you do. How do you build leaders? You first build character.”
523. “Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.”
524. “We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them "
525. “Leadership is a choice, not a position."
526. Happen to things, don't let things happen to you. Stephen Covey
527. “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
528. “No one can hurt you without your consent.” In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.” It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more”
529. “In the words of Abraham Maslow, “He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.”
530. ″As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.″
531. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
532. “The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.”
533. “A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief"
534. “If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.” (51
535. “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
536. “Any time we think the problem is “out there,” that very thought is the problem.”
537. “A good definition of sacrifice is giving up something — even something good — for something better.”
538. The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
539. “If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.”
540. “The single most powerful investment we can ever make in life is investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and contribute.”
541. “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.”
542. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
543. “captain then called to the signalman, “Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change”
544. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” -Stephen Covey
545. “As Emerson once put it, “What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.” There are, of course,”
546. “But you can’t change the fruit without changing the root.”
547. The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life’s Most Difficult Problems. Simon and Schuster.
548. “When the trust is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” — Stephen Covey
549. “All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.”
550. “Courage isn’t absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
551. The more people are into quick fix and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition. The way we see the problem is the problem.”
552. “My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.”
553. “you can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.” *”
554. "I cam not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions” – Stephen Covey
555. “Empathy is not sympathy. Sympathy is a form of agreement. Empathy is not agreeing with someone; it is fully, deeply understanding that person, emotionally as well as intellectually.”
556. “We know and accept this fact or principle of process in the area of physical things, but to understand it in emotional areas, in human relations, and even in the area of personal character is less common and more difficult. And”
557. “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 R. Covey
558. “People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.”
559. “Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately”
560. “The price must be paid and the process followed.”
561. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” – Stephen R. Covey
562. “life is a mission and not a career,”
563. “In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
564. “This is the true joy in life—that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
565. “Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.” – Stephen Covey
566. “Strength lies in differences not in similarities.” Stephen Covey
567. “Are we basically a product of nature or nurture? Neither. We are a product of choice. Are leaders born or made? Neither. They are self-made. Again it is a choice.”
568. “We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, “If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.”
569. “to be trusted, it is said, is greater than to be loved. In the long run, I am convinced, to be trusted will be also to be loved.”
570. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your customers.” — Stephen R. Covey, businessman and author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
571. “Think win-win.” Stephen Covey
572. “Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.”
573. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” – Stephen R. Covey
574. “Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn’t a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.”
575. “Cчастье, хотя бы частично, можно определить как плод желания и способности жертвовать тем, что мы хотим сейчас, во имя того, что мы хотим в конечном счете”
576. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen R. Covey
577. “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
578. “Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others.”
579. “you’re not going to talk your way out of a problem you behaved yourself into.”
580. “Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”
581. “Every human being 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.”
582. “referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children seem to have an innate”
583. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others. – Stephen R. Covey
584. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience, and it doesn’t preclude the necessity to train and develop people so that their competency can rise to the level of that trust.” (187
585. “Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography”
586. “My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”
587. “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.”
588. “Start with the end in mind. ”
589. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey
590. “But the underlying chronic condition remains, and eventually new acute symptoms will appear. The more people are into quick fix and focus on the acute problems and pain, the more that very approach contributes to the underlying chronic condition. The way we see the problem is the problem.”
591. When the trust is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. — Stephen Covey
592. Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true.
593. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
594. “The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.”
595. “The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.”- Stephen Covey
596. “the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.”
597. “The core of any family is what is changeless, what is always going to be there—shared vision and values.”
598. “Accountability breeds response-ability.” –Stephen Covey
599. “Before you read further, take a few minutes to jot down your impressions.”
600. “First, I would recommend that you not “see” this material as a book, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.”
601. “One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, “How much did he leave?” His friend responded, “He left it all.”
602. “The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
603. “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.” Stephen Covey
604. “When you share what you learn, you get to learn it twice.”
605. “I am always amazed at the results that happen, both to individuals and to organizations, when responsible, proactive, self-directing individuals are turned loose on a task.”
606. “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
607. “Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior of their own conscious choice.” Stephen Covey
608. “Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.”
609. “We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”
610. “Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
611. Living the 7 habits: stories of courage and inspiration. Simon and Schuster.
612. “There are three constants in life – change, choice and principles.” Stephen Covey
613. "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”– Stephen Covey
614. “Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance,”
615. “Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits.”
616. “People are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope with all of their might.”
617. “Se requiere humildad para buscar realimentación. Se requiere sabiduría para entenderla, analizarla y actuar sobre ella apropiadamente”. —Stephen R. Covey”
618. Servant leadership. Leadership Excellence, 23(12
619. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Free Press.
620. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey
621. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
622. “It has generally been my experience that the very top people of truly great organizations are servant-leaders.” ― Stephen Covey
623. “They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.”
624. “Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.” No”
625. “to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
626. “It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.”
627. “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
628. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
629. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
630. “trying to prioritize activities before you even know how they relate to your sense of personal mission and how they fit into the balance of your life is not effective.”
631. “A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.” Stephen Covey
632. Stephen R. Covey on Climbing the Ladder.
633. “Management, remember, is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right brain activity. It’s more of an art; it’s based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you’re dealing with personal leadership issues.”
634. “Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I’ll show you the supreme power of choice.”
635. “Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.”
636. I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
637. “There is the first creation to every part of our lives”
638. “If you wish to communicate effectively and to influence others, you would need to understand them first. And understanding can only come from listening.”
639. “We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.”
640. “It’s how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
641. Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.” – Stephen Covey
642. “Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” Stephen Covey
643. “The only way to reach success is through hard work and dedication.” – Stephen Covey
644. “Being is seeing in the human dimension.”
645. Accountability breeds responsibility. – Stephen Covey
646. “« Explora tu corazón con diligencia, pues de él fluyen las fuentes de la vida».”
647. The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” – Stephen R. Covey
648. “Those you teach will see you as a changing, growing person, and will be more inclined to be helpful and supportive as you work, perhaps together, to integrate the Seven Habits into your lives.”
649. “PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that’s what they are. They volunteer the best part—their hearts and minds.”
650. “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
651. “We knew that social comparison motives were out of harmony with our deeper values and could lead to conditional love and eventually to our son’s lessened sense of self-worth.”
652. ″We will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.″
653. “Begin with the end in mind”– Stephen Covey
654. “It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.”
655. “To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”
656. “The key is to not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen R. Covey
657. “Put First Things First”, talks about the difference between leadership and management. Ths habit distinguishes between what is important and what is urgent. Priority should be given in the following order:
658. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
659. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
660. “Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a choice. be part of the solution not part of the problem.”
661. “In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
662. “Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.”
663. “The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
664. “build inner character first—private victory before public victory.”
665. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
666. “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.”
667. “Habit 2 says we don’t have to live with these scripts. We are response-able to use our imagination and creativity to write new ones that are more effective, more congruent with our deepest values and with the correct principles that give our values meaning.”
668. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. ” – Stephen Covey
669. “There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.” David Grinspoon
670. “I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.” Stephen Covey
671. “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.”
672. “Private victories precede public victories.” (59
673. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
674. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others. - Stephen R. Covey
675. “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
676. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication.” — Stephen Covey
677. “Organize and execute around priorities.”
678. “Knowing that we are responsible—“response-able”—is fundamental to effectiveness and to every other habit of effectiveness we will discuss.”
679. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey
680. Spiritual Roots of Human Relations. ISBN 0-87579-705-9.
681. “5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood).”
682. “The work will come again, but childhood won’t.”
683. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” — Stephen Covey
684. “when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”
685. “Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.”
686. “Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.”
687. “Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.”
688. “Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.”
689. “Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.”
690. “He who has a why can deal with any what or how.”
691. “Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.”
692. “Integrity is conforming reality to our words – in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.” ~ Stephen Covey
693. Principle Centered Leadership. Simon and Schuster.
694. “He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.”
695. “The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.”
696. “My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can i do?"
697. “Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.” – Stephen Covey
698. “Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about
699. “it’s so important whenever you come into a new situation to get all the expectations out on the table.”
700. “We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.”
701. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
702. The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. Simon and Schuster.
703. “Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.”
704. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”
705. “As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, “No one can hurt you without your consent.” In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
706. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
707. “The wonderful thing is that vision is greater than baggage.”
708. “Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
709. “Reaching our full physical maturity, for example, does not necessarily assure us of simultaneous emotional or mental maturity.”
710. “maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values.”
711. The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
712. “There are some people who interpret “proactive” to mean pushy, aggressive, or insensitive; but that isn’t the case at all. Proactive people aren’t pushy. They’re smart, they’re value driven, they read reality, and they know what’s needed.”
713. “Each of us guards a gate of change that can be opened only from the inside.”
714. “All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
715. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
716. “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
717. In relationships, the little things are the big things.” – Stephen Covey
718. ″While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law….We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the train hits us.″
719. “There’s no way to go for a Win in our own lives if we don’t even know, in a deep sense, what constitutes a Win—what is, in fact, harmonious with our innermost values.”
720. “You can’t have the fruits without the roots. It’s the principle of sequencing. Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
721. “Because the church is a formal organization made up of policies, programs, practices, and people, it cannot by itself give a person any deep, permanent security or sense of intrinsic worth. Living the principles taught by the church can do this, but the organization alone cannot.”
722. “Integrity is walk our talk”
723. “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 R. Covey
724. “The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.”
725. Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. –Stephen R. Covey
726. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” - Stephen Covey
727. “The only person I know, is the person I want to be”
728. “When one does not have the passion that flows from finding and using one’s voice to serve great purposes, the void is filled with insecurity and the empty chatter of a thousand voices that drive the social mirror.”
729. “Using intimidation builds weakness because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done. When fear replaces cooperation, both people involved become more illogical and”
730. “Effectiveness lies in the balance.”
731. “Begin with the end in mind.” Stephen Covey
732. “I’ve come to a personal belief that a key ingredient in the West Point recipe is the idea that great leadership begins first with character—that leadership is primarily a function of who you are, for this is the foundation for everything you do.”
733. “Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.” ~ Stephen Covey
734. “It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
735. “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”
736. “Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”
737. “Because Win/Win is a principle people can validate in their own lives, you will be able to bring most people to a realization that they will win more of what they want by doing for what you both want.”
738. “Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.” — Stephen Covey
739. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. ” –Stephen R. Covey
740. “In the words of William George Jordan, “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”
741. “It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.”
742. “The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. “
743. “We began to realize that 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”
744. “Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.”
745. “If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.”
746. “Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.” Stephen Covey
747. “Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.” – Sean Covey
748. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -Stephen Covey
749. “The enemy of ‘best’ is often ‘good’.” (165
750. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
751. “You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.”
752. “If you don't let a teacher know what level you are - by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance - you will not learn or grow”
753. “Pero la mayoría de la gente es demasiado vulnerable emocionalmente para escuchar atentamente, para postergar sus propios asuntos el tiempo suficiente para concentrarse en comprender antes de comunicar sus propias ideas. Nuestra”
754. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
755. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes.”
756. “He who has a why can deal with any what or how.” Stephen Covey
757. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
758. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” Stephen Covey
759. The ultimate question: Driving good profits and true growth. Harvard Business School Press.
760. “would do more strategic, proactive recruiting and selecting. When you are buried by the urgent and have a thousand balls in the air, it is so easy to put people that appear to have solutions into key positions. The tendency”
761. “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”
762. “I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.”
763. “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smiling, nonapoloegetically – to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.” Stephen Covey
764. “Satisfied needs do not motivate.”
765. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey, American educator, author, and businessman
766. “Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
767. “Deep within each of us is an inner longing to live a life of greatness and contribution – to really matter. to really make a difference. We can consciously decide to leave behind a life of mediocrity and to life a life of greatness – at home. at work. and in the community” – Stephen R. Covey
768. “The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” – Stephen R. Covey
769. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
770. “It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
771. “There is an emerging fourth generation that is different in kind. It recognizes that 'time management' is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Satisfaction is a function of expectation as well as realization.”
772. “Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.” ~ Stephen Covey
773. “People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.”
774. We are limited, but we can push back the borders of our limitations.” – Stephen R. Covey
775. “You can’t find good people these days. There’s too much turnover, absenteeism, moonlighting. People just don’t care anymore.”
776. “the pressures of circumstance”
777. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.” — Stephen Covey
778. “The first choice we make each and every day is, ‘Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?”
779. The 7 habits of highly effective families. St. Martin’s Press.
780. “Make time for planning; Wars are won in the general’s tent.”
781. “When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
782. “leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”
783. “Your planning tool should be your servant, never your master.”
784. “Obviously building a character of total integrity and living the life of love and service that creates such unity isn’t easy. It isn’t quick fix. But it’s possible.” (329
785. “The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.” — Stephen Covey
786. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
787. “Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”
788. “if God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.”
789. “Make time for planning; Wars are won in the general’s tent.” Stephen Covey
790. “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do
791. “If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.” ~ Stephen Covey
792. “Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.”
793. “The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.”
794. Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
795. “In the name or professional success, they may neglect the most precious relationships in their lives.”
796. “A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.” – Sean Covey
797. The seven habits of highly effective leaders. Simon & Schuster, New York. Coviello, Decio, Nicola Persico, and Andrea Ichino,(2014
798. “The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances”
799. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. ” – Stephen Covey
800. “you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.”
801. “Our personal environment is also changing at an ever-increasing pace. Such rapid change burns out a large number of people who feel they can hardly handle it, can hardly cope with life. They become reactive and essentially give up, hoping that the things that happen to them will be good.”
802. “It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
803. “Communication is the most important skill in life.”
804. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Management”
805. “How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
806. “Level 5 leaders display a paradoxical combination of personal humility and professional will, channelling their energy, drive, creativity and discipline in to something larger and more enduring than themselves.”
807. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” –Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis (108
808. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” - Stephen R. Covey
809. “Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.”
810. “Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three”
811. “make decisions based on our values and not how we felt in the moment.”
812. “Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present. ” — Stephen Covey
813. “your happiness depends on (1) genetics, (2) circumstances, and (3) things you can control.”
814. ″Making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others…. it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.″
815. “we're responsible for our own lives.”
816. “the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness.”
817. “How many on their deathbeds wished they’d spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one.”
818. “What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?”
819. “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,”
820. “The way we see the problem is the problem.”
821. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey
822. “The way we see the problem is the problem.” Stephen Covey
823. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. And”
824. Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
825. The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time. Simon and Schuster.
826. “The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness.”
827. “Put first things first.”
828. “Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
829. “Love is a verb. Love–the feeling–is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”
830. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,”
831. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
832. “The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.”
833. “You can buy a person’s hand, but you can’t buy his heart.”
834. “Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.”
835. “but they don’t really want to listen; they want to manipulate. And synergy can’t thrive in that”
836. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey, American educator
837. “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, “How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?”
838. “Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.”
839. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tried to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
840. “Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn’t begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.”
841. “Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves,”
842. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” – Stephen R. Covey
843. “Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.” (88
844. Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present. — Stephen Covey
845. “We are what we repeatedly do.”
846. Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her.
847. “Deep within each of us is an inner longing to live a life of greatness and contribution – to really matter, to really make a difference. We can consciously decide to leave behind a life of mediocrity and to life a life of greatness – at home, at work, and in the community.”
848. “The Psalmist expressed our conviction well: “Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.”
849. “Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth -- a knowledge of things as they are.”
850. “Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.”
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