613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.

Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people’s talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.

When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a ‘me’ experience to a ‘we’ experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.