Stephen Covey Quotes

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriv...

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take t...

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportu...

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve int...

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I ...

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...

Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yours...

Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to ac...

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degr...

Trust is the glue of life.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out ...

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experien...

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary chang...

The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, ...

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. ...

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while ...

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

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look...

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy repl...

So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick...

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if ...

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

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal...

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profo...

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder ...

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, trea...

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be r...

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part ...

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...

We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer de...

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