Quote

It comes from within.

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
Empowerment
Within
Freedom
Comes

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?
Stephen Covey
Image
The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
Stephen Covey
Image
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen Covey
Image
If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.
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
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
Stephen Covey
Image
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen Covey
Image
We are product of neither nature nor nurture we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
Stephen Covey
Image
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
Stephen Covey
Image
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
Stephen Covey
Image
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
Stephen Covey
Image
Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
Stephen Covey
Image
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
Stephen Covey
Image
Private victories precede public victories.
Stephen Covey
Image
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
Stephen Covey
Image
Be proactive. Ask yourself, Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?
Stephen Covey
Image
I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
Stephen Covey
Image
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
Stephen Covey
Image
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Stephen Covey
Image
You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
Stephen Covey