More Quotes by Stephen Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
