Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived.

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

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent—paralyzed or disabled or limited

It is the love and the discipline of the one student, the one child, that communicates love for the others. It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Level 5 leaders display a paradoxical combination of personal humility and professional will, channelling their energy, drive, creativity and discipline in to something larger and more enduring than themselves.

Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people.

Effectiveness lies in the balance.

At the height of maturity, there is no difference between knowledge and sentiment.

The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility. Reactive vs. Proactive Voice There's nothing I can do vs. Let's look at our alternatives That's just the way I am vs. I can choose a different approach He makes me so mad vs. I control my own feelings They won't allow that vs. I can create an effective presentation I have to do that vs. I will choose an appropriate response I can't vs. I choose I must vs. I prefer If only vs. I will

There is no real excellence

that no one can hurt me without my consent

There's so much to do. And there's never enough time. I feel pressured and hassled all day, every day, seven days a week. I've attended time management seminars and I've tried half a dozen different planning systems. They've helped some, but I still don't feel I'm living the happy, productive, peaceful life I want to live.

Expand Perspective Sometimes we are knocked out of our left brain environment and thought patterns and into the right brain by an unplanned experience. The death of a loved one, a severe illness, a financial setback, or extreme adversity can cause us to stand back, look at our lives, and ask ourselves some hard questions: "What's really important? Why am I doing what I'm doing?

Culpar a los demás y al entorno de nuestros problemas y dificultades puede convertirse en una norma; puede atenuar temporalmente nuestro dolor, pero al mismo tiempo nos encadena a esos mismos problemas. Muéstrenme

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." ? Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Universal principles or natural laws, such as responsibility, integrity, abundance and renewal

maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values.

it's so important whenever you come into a new situation to get all the expectations out on the table.

It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And

Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves. While most of the world spins around in Quadrant I, reacting to urgent matters and managing one crisis after another, people who spend a majority of their time in Quadrant II are leading balanced, serene, and ordered lives. They are planning and executing according to their highest priorities.

Our language, for example, is a very real indicator of the degree to which we see ourselves as proactive people.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.