Quotes from Stephen Covey

Interdependency follows independence.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

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

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

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.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements