More Quotes by Stephen Covey
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
