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.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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.
