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Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 2

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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Understood

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Freedom, Passion, Empowerment

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Freedom, Positive Thinking, Control Myself

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.106, Mango Media Inc.

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.

Change, Encouragement, Freedom

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Inspirational, Motivational, Way

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

Mother, Children, Father

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

Apples, Seeds

Stephen R. Covey, Truman G. Madsen (1983). “Marriage & family: gospel insights”, Bookcraft Pubs

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

Contradiction, Term, Mutual

Stephen M. R. Covey (2012). “Smart Trust”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Ignorance, Firsts, Steps

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.41, Mango Media Inc.

The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

Motivational, Mistake, Humility

Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Inspirational, Wall, Priorities In Life

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Military, Commitment, Important

"First Things First".

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

Success, Past, Excellence

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

Life, Change, Bad Ass

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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

Inspirational, Basketball, Perseverance

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Leadership, Business, Management

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Life, Change, Empathy

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.

Heart, Mind, Important

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Live Your Life, Compass, Clock

Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

Cancer, Emotional, Circles

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

Roots, Fruit, Can't Change

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.254, Mango Media Inc.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

Love, Friendship, Relationship

Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Reflection, Emotional, Views

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Choices, Position

"Voices on Leadership: Stephen R. Covey". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. July 17, 2008.

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