Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
You can't live principals you can't understand.
Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.