Stephen Covey Quotes
"Public behavior is merely private character writ large."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Character, Behavior, Public)
"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Quality, Relationships)
"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Life, Goals, Decisions, Force)
"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Power, Animals, Choice, Past)
"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Change, Life, Choice, Principles)
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
- Stephen Covey
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Leadership, Success, Management, Efficiency, Right)
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: History, Imagination)
"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Technology, People, Books, Communication, Fact, Information, Television)
"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."
- 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
(Related: Change, Power, Imagination, Awareness, Conscience, Freedom, Self, Self awareness, Will)
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Leadership, Discipline, Management, First)
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Key, Priorities)