We are free to choose our actions… but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Most arguments are not really disagreements but are rather little ego battles and misunderstandings. Little kindness and courtesies are so important. How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one. Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Strength lies in differences not in similarities. When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Effective leadership is putting first things first. You can’t change the fruit without changing the root. What you do has far greater impact than what you say. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. We can consciously decide to leave behind a life of mediocrity and to life a life of greatness – at home, at work, and in the community.” Stephen Covey Motivation is a fire from within. “Deep within each of us is an inner longing to live a life of greatness and contribution – to really matter, to really make a difference. Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. These give us the ultimate human freedom: The power to choose, to respond, to change.” Stephen Covey Each of us guards a gate of change that can be opened only from the inside. “Every human being has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday”, that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise”. Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. They feed opportunities and starve problems. Effective people are not problem-minded they’re opportunity-minded. The way we see the ‘problem’ is the problem. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.” Stephen Covey Sow a thought, reap an action sow an action, reap a habit sow a habit, reap a character sow a character, reap a destiny. “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smiling, nonapologetically – to say ‘no’ to other things. 44 Inspirational Stephen Covey Quotes to Help You Sharpen Your Saw Leadership is a choice that lies in the space between stimulus and response. Seek first to understand, and then to be understood. To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. Make time for planning Wars are won in the general’s tent. Leadership is the highest of the arts, simply because it enables all the other arts and professions to work. Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy – leaders are neither born nor made. Live out of your imagination, not your history. There are three constants in life – change, choice and principles. I am talking about leading your own life, being a leader among your friends, being a leader in your own family.” Stephen Covey Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply. A CEO is no more likely to be a leader than anyone else.
“I don’t define leadership as becoming the CEO. Top 11 Most Famous Stephen Covey Quotes on Leadership, Change, and Trust
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