613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

Do what is important rather than what is urgent.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experience what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.