Stephen Covey

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions.

Stephen Covey

We can’t live without eating, but we don’t live to eat.

Stephen Covey

We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently

Stephen Covey

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are-or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Stephen Covey

We’re often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don’t even realise we’re in the wrong jungle.

Stephen Covey

When all you want is a person’s body and you don’t really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.

Stephen Covey

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.

Stephen Covey

When it comes to defining a team’s purpose, the time-proven rule applies: No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

When one side benefits more than the other, that’s a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Stephen Covey

When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.

Stephen Covey