If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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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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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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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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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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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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