Quotes from Stephen Covey

We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

As long as we are working in our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us. We aren't taking the proactive initiative necessary to effect positive change.

Our basic human needs and capacities to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy.

As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Life is a mission and not a career," and that we could find true happiness by serving others.

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.

Grandparents who show a great interest in their grandchildren are among the most precious people on this earth. What

There are, of course, situations where people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

The world has changed dramatically since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was first published. Life is more complex, more stressful, more demanding. We have transitioned from the Industrial

When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

What we sow, we must inevitably reap.