Stephen R. Covey Quotes

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.
Stephen R. Covey
Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
Stephen R. Covey
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Stephen R. Covey
Start with the end in mind.
Stephen R. Covey
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
Stephen R. Covey
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?
Stephen R. Covey
A series problem with a reactive language is that it become a self-fulfilling prophecy, People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief, They ( Reactive People) feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny, They blame outside forces -- other people, circumstances, even the stars -- for their own situation
Stephen R. Covey
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
Stephen R. Covey
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
Stephen R. Covey
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.
Stephen R. Covey
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.
Stephen R. Covey
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 should be.
Stephen R. Covey
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.
Stephen R. Covey
You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence
Stephen R. Covey
It comes from within.
Stephen R. Covey
How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Stephen R. Covey
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Stephen R. Covey
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
It is character that communicates most eloquently.
Stephen R. Covey
We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
Stephen R. Covey
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
Stephen R. Covey
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.
Stephen R. Covey