85 Quotes by Sean Covey

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

It is OK to be a little selfish about my priorities.