More Quotes by Stephen Covey
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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.
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 people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
