613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.

Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.

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

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

To know and not to do is not to know.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.