Stephen Covey Quotes

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A tendency that’s run through your family for generations can stop with you. You’re a transition person – a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.
Stephen Covey

One person can be a change catalyst, a ‘transformer’ in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf.
Stephen Covey

Balance isn’t either/or; it’s and.
Stephen Covey

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation.
Stephen Covey

An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Stephen Covey

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.
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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

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance…
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Make small commitments and keep them.
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Be a light, not a judge.
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Be part of the solution and not the problem.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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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.
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Identity is destiny.
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You learn best when you teach another.
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To know and not to do, is really not to know.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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The brain said, ‘I’m the smartest organ in the body.’ The heart said, ‘Who told you?’
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Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
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The key question is always. What is the best thing I can do under these circumstances?
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Next to life itself… our freedom to choose, to direct our lives, is our most precious gift and power.
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90 percent of all leadership failures are character failures.
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Only 57 percent of workers… agree that their organizations consistently do what they say they will do.
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The principled exercise of free choice… almost always involves some form of sacrifice.
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Trust becomes a verb when you communicate to others their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
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There are only two roles in organizations: customers and suppliers.
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People want peace of mind and good relationships, but also want to keep their lifestyle and habits.
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If working harder, smarter, and faster won’t solve it, what will?
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
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Priority is a function of context.
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Difference is the beginning of synergy.
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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
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We must become the change we seek in the world.
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The key is in having a destination, a flight plan and a compass.
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Vision is greater than baggage.
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The jet stream has changed – dramatically. And to ‘go with the flow’ today is family-fatal!
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We do not have to love. We choose to love.
Stephen Covey

To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing.
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Always talk about others as if they were present.
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