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Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 23

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The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

Fire, Flames, People

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

Running, Fabric Of Life, Consistency

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

Heart, Mind, Wells

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.564, Mango Media Inc.

By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

Creating, Focus, Peaceful

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.449, Mango Media Inc.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.

Together, Glue

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

Judging, Rejection, Understanding

I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

Motivational, People, Challenges

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Psych, Over You, Way

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Character, Looks, Equal

Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Life, Change, Writing

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, p.159, Mango Media Inc.

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

Balance, Roles, Synergy

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

People, Principles, Educated

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.

Communication, Issues, Safety

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

Thinking, People, Ironic

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

Self, Feelings, Action

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Economy

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Doors, Answers, Stills

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

Thinking, Self, Interesting

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Inspiration, Reading, Mind

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, p.379, Mango Media Inc.

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

Sports, Teenager, Home

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Motivational, Simple, Inspire

Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

Real, Effectiveness, Advice

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Struggle, Men, Challenges

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Two, Roots, Quality

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.

Mother, Humility, Pride

Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.452, Mango Media Inc.

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