613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

It’s not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

People don’t listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.