Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

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

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

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

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

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

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.

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

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

It comes from within.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

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

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Where we stand depends on where we sit. Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.