Quotes from Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

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.

A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person — a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.

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

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion -- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet -- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.

Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?