Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 14

All Quotes Accomplishment Accountability Adventure Age Art Attitude Authority Balance Belief Blame Business Challenges Change Character Children Choices Church Collaboration Commitment Common Sense Communication Compassion Conscience Courage Creativity Culture Desire Discipline Doing The Right Thing Doubt Economy Efficiency Effort Empathy Empowerment Encouragement Energy Environment Excellence Exercise Expectations Family Feelings Focus Freedom Giving Greatness Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Heart Home Honesty Honor Humility Identity Imagination Independence Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intuition Judging Kindness Knowledge Law Of Attraction Leadership Learning Legacy Life Love Lying Making A Difference Management Memories Morning Motivation Motivational Moving Forward Office Opportunity Overcoming Passion Past Perception Persistence Personality Perspective Philosophy Planning Positive Positive Thinking Progress Purpose Quality Reading Reality Reflection Rejection Responsibility Running Sacrifice School Self Control Self Esteem Soul Speed Sports Strategy Struggle Success Team Teamwork Technology Time Time Management Trust Understanding Values Victory Virtue Vision Wall Water Weakness Winning Wisdom Working Together Writing

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals,

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

Powerful, Struggle, Commitment

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

Effectiveness, People, Empathy

Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.271, Thomas Nelson Inc

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Motivational, People, Perspective

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.157, Mango Media Inc.

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

People, Empowering, Blame

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.

Business, Insperational, Perfect

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Integrity, Commitment, Essence

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.108, Mango Media Inc.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Strength, Self Esteem, Emotional

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

Life is a mission, not a career.

Motivational, Careers, Life Is

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

Reality, People, Choices

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

Motivational, Team, Humble

Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

Mistake, Failure, Thinking

Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

Inspirational, Relationship, Heart

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Perspective, Dimensions, Humans

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

Motivational, Character, Emotional

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

Garden, Giving, Gardener

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

Exercise, Space, Choices

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

Appreciate, Giving, Appreciate What You Have

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.

Heart, Humble, Humility

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

Life, Success, Business

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

Thinking, Effectiveness, People

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

You can't live principals you can't understand.

Understanding, Principal

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Leadership, People, Work Out

Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.264, St. Martin's Press

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Motivational, Track, Borders

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.148, Mango Media Inc.

You May Also Like: