We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
STEPHEN COVEYWe develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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