You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
STEPHEN COVEYPrepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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