Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
Self
Creative
Conscience
Giving
Four
Independent
Every
Freedom
Ultimate
Change
Awareness
Endowments
Power
Creativity
Endowment
Give
Choose
Empowerment
Human
Liberty
Encouragement
Humans
Imagination
Respond

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
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
Image
Proactive people carry their own weather with them.
Stephen Covey
Image
Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
Stephen Covey
Image
The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.
Stephen Covey
Image
Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
Stephen Covey
Image
Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
Stephen Covey
Image
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
Stephen Covey
Image
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Stephen Covey
Image
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Stephen Covey
Image
Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Stephen Covey
Image
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Stephen Covey
Image
I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
Stephen Covey
Image
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which life is made.
Stephen Covey
Image
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Stephen Covey
Image
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
Image
It comes from within.
Stephen Covey
Image
I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
Stephen Covey
Image
Seek to understand rather than be understood.
Stephen Covey
Image
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Stephen Covey
Image
Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
Stephen Covey