613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

Patience is emotional diligence.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.