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Stephen Covey Quotes about Change

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To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Change, Goal, Needs

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Change, Asking, Change For The Better

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

Motivational, Change, Emotional Appeal

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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

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

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

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

Relationship, Change, Family

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Life, Change, Meaningful

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Change, Leadership, Persistence

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

Change, Giving, Choices

Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

"If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

Life, Change, Honesty

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.230, Mango Media Inc.

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.

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

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Life, Change, Goal

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

Motivational, Change, Choices

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Life, Change, Responsibility

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Change, People

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

Life, Change, Way

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Life, Change, Attitude

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

Change, Responsibility, Animal

"CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Change, Courage, Inspiration

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Life, Motivational, Change

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.115, Simon and Schuster

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Life, Change, Honesty

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Life, Change, Team

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