Stephen Covey Quotes

» Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

» Live out of your imagination, not your history.

» The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

» Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

» A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

» There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

» In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

» Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

» Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

» The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

» Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

» We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

» It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

» We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

» We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

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