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
Stephen Covey quotes about
Leadership is a choice, not a position
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.