While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
STEPHEN COVEYLeadership is a choice, not a position.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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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 glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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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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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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