Stephen Covey

Success became more a function of personality, of public image, of attitudes and behaviors, skills and techniques, that lubricate the processes of human interaction.

Stephen Covey

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better – and your response equals the challenge.

Stephen Covey

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Stephen Covey

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Stephen Covey

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

Stephen Covey

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Stephen Covey

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephen Covey

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Stephen Covey

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Stephen Covey

The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.

Stephen Covey