Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
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
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
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
Quotes about life
Imagination
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Business
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
Overcoming Failure
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.
Friendship
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Success
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Action
The best way you can predict your future is to create it.
Responsibility
Accountability breeds response-ability.
Teamwork
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
Determination
Begin with the end in mind.
Leadership
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Sales
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Motivation
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Character
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Freedom
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Thought
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Life
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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