Stephen Covey – Quotes Crazy

Private victories precede public victories. You cant invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. – Stephen Covey

Priority is a function of context. – Stephen Covey

You cant live principals you cant understand. – Stephen Covey

If youre proactive, you dont have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. – Stephen Covey

Seek first to understand and then to be understood. – Stephen Covey

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. – Stephen Covey

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character. – Stephen Covey

The ability to manage well doesnt make much difference if youre not even in the right jungle. – Stephen Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you dont pay the price day in and day out, youll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind. – Stephen Covey

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the homes potential for positive influence. – Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue of life. Its the most essential ingredient in effective communication. Its the foundational principle that holds all relationships. – Stephen Covey

Its a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. – Stephen Covey

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. – Stephen Covey

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. – Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. – Stephen Covey

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. – Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. – Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. – Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. – Stephen Covey