Stephen R. Covey
American author and educator, 1932-2012
59 quotes.
Quotes by Stephen R. Covey
- Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
- Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations.
- Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
- Trust is the glue that holds everything together.
- Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.
- Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
- Unless we exercise our power to choose wisely, our actions will be determined by conditions. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
- 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.
- We don’t invent our missions, we detect them.
- We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
- We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
- Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
- You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
- You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
- You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
- You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
- Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
- I think the main source of personal change is pain...If you aren't feeling pain, there is rarely enough motivation or humility to change.
- The way we see the problem is the problem.