Quotes from Stephen Covey
We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.
- Stephen Covey
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
- Stephen Covey
You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
- Stephen Covey
If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
- Stephen Covey
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
- Stephen Covey
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
- Stephen Covey
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
- Stephen Covey
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
- Stephen Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen Covey
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
- Stephen Covey
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
- Stephen Covey
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
- Stephen Covey