More Quotes by Stephen Covey
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.
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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.
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
