613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Unless we learn from living, how are we going to keep from doing the same things- making the same mistakes, struggling with the same problems- week after week?

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.(p. 62)