Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life.

Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives

When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.