Stephen R. Covey

Quotes

• “All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anyth...”
• “churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and pr...”
• “Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to...”
• “To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (p...”
• “He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that r...”
• “People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who ...”
• “Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite ...”
• “We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But...”
• “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 describ...”
• “My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to h...”
• “People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a change...”
• “Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself ...”
• “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen...”
• “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that per...”
• “I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require th...”
• “Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church ...”
• “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 i...”
• “people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relations...”
• “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert...”
• “Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's ve...”
• “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and sh...”
• “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.”
• “You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence”
• “Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.”
• “The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
• “Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.”
• “to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
• “How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
• “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”
• “Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
• “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
• “People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
• “People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”
• “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
• “The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.”
• “Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.”
• “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,”
• “Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
• “Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”
• “It is character that communicates most eloquently.”
• “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
• “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
• “But borrowing strength builds weakness.”
• “Being is seeing in the human dimension.”
• “Where westand depends on where we sit.”
• “Start with the end in mind.”
• “It comes from within.”