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Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 7

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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Change, Inspiration, Perspective

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

It's not enough to have values without vision ; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.

Character, Hands, Empowering

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Crazy, Reflection, Mirrors

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

Teamwork, Buried, Thick

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Leadership, Successful, People

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.226, Mango Media Inc.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

Inspirational, Marriage, Feelings

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Trust, Communication, Easy

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

Do what is important, not what is urgent.

Important, Urgent

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

Hurt, People, Fundamentals

Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

Long, Investment, Building

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

Wall, Home, Thinking

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

Lying, Passion, Voice

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

Life, Office, Watching Tv

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

Positive, Wisdom, Goal

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

Success, Leadership, Commitment

Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Inspirational, Integrity, Yesterday

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

Heart, Creativity, Hands

Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.

Priorities, Schedules, Prioritize

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

Inspiration, Priorities In Life, Enemy

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.191, Mango Media Inc.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

Skills, Empathy, Important

Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

Workout, Health, Exercise

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.365, Mango Media Inc.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Excellence

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

Life, Relationship, Change

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

Winning, Alternatives, Way

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.255, Mango Media Inc.

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