TIMELY WISDOM

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Quotes: Stephen Covey




« Our character is basically a composite of our habits. »
Stephen Covey


« Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. »
Stephen Covey


« Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success »
Stephen Covey


« Effective leadership is putting first things first. »
Stephen Covey


« It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. »
Stephen Covey


« Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. »
Stephen Covey


« A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. »
Stephen Covey


« The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. »
Stephen Covey


« We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. »
Stephen Covey


« Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. »
Stephen Covey



« Live out of your imagination, not your history. »
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


« Public behavior is merely private character writ large. »
Stephen Covey


« In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. »
Stephen Covey


« There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. »
Stephen Covey


« The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. »
Stephen Covey


« Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success »
Stephen Covey


« Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. »
Stephen Covey


« Effective leadership is putting first things first. »
Stephen Covey






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