Quotes from Stephen Covey
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
- Stephen Covey
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
- Stephen Covey
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
- Stephen Covey
A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.
- Stephen Covey
Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
- Stephen Covey
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
- Stephen Covey
A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.
- Stephen Covey
You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.
- Stephen Covey
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
- Stephen Covey
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
- Stephen Covey
Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
- Stephen Covey
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
- Stephen Covey