Stephen Covey quotes - page 2

Stephen Covey was an American educator, author, and businessman, widely known for his book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." His teachings have influenced millions in the fields of leadership, personal development, and organizational effectiveness. He remains a respected figure whose work continues to inspire individuals and organizations worldwide. Here are 200 of his quotes:

Wisdom is synergy of mind and heart.

Stephen Covey

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Stephen Covey

...when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.

Stephen Covey

Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.

Stephen Covey

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

Stephen Covey

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Stephen Covey

Integrity in the Moment of Choice Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Stephen Covey

THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

No gardener, no garden!

Stephen Covey

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made.

Stephen Covey

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

Stephen Covey

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

Stephen Covey

Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.

Stephen Covey

The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act.

Stephen Covey

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw.

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

Stephen Covey

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

Stephen Covey

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

Stephen Covey

we're responsible for our own lives.

Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey