When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
STEPHEN COVEYWhere 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.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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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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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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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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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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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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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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