613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they’re eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.