613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we’ve put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.