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
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Exercise integrity in the moment of truth.
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is ?a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.
The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.
The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
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.
We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.