Quotes by Stephen Covey

• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
• Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
• 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.
• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
• There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
• Live out of your imagination, not your history.
• It's 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.
• In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
• Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
• The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
• Do not be a product of your circumstances, but a product of your decisions.
• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
• Life is a journey, not a destination; cherish the moments along the way.
• As you climb the ladder of success, make sure it's leaning against the right wall.
• I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions.
• Success is not just about reaching the destination, but also appreciating the journey along the way.
• Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
• I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions
• I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my choices.
• Success is not by chance, it's by choice.
• There are three constants in life: change, choice, and principles.
• Do not listen with the intent to reply, but with the desire to understand.
• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
• Successful action creates motivation, not the other way around.
• Do not wait for inspiration, create a habit of getting things done.
• Strength lies in differences, not similarities.
• Success is not the destination, it's the journey
• The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
• I'm not a product of my circumstances. I'm a product of my decisions.
• The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to undrerstand, we listen to reply