Quotes from Stephen Covey
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
- Stephen Covey
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
- Stephen Covey
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic
- Stephen Covey
We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.
- Stephen Covey
Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
- Stephen Covey
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
- Stephen Covey
Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
- Stephen Covey
The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
- Stephen Covey
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
- Stephen Covey
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- Stephen Covey
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
- Stephen Covey
I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
- Stephen Covey