613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same?

我們的觀念其實是與自我認知盤根糾結的。如果我說自己是環保主義者或保守派或老師，我說的不僅是自己的信念或價值觀—我所描繪的是我是個什麼樣的人。因此，當你攻擊我這一方時，你攻擊的是我和我的自我形象。如果推到極端，自我認知的衝突甚至可以引發戰爭。

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time, from major seasons to the individual moments in our lives. We're also living with the consequences of those choices

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.