More Quotes by Stephen Covey
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.
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
