613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

It doesn't matter where you're coming from? all that matters is where you aregoing. You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'

Win win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolatedtechniques, they won't hold up. Even if you set them up in the beginning, there isno way to maintain them without personal integrity and a relationship of trust.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

(With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With people, slow isfast and fast is slow.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection andfeeds upon itself.

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose