Quote

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

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
Time
Life
Probably
Didn
Someone
Believe

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
Stephen Covey
Image
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
Stephen Covey
Image
Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
Stephen Covey
Image
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey
Image
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
Stephen Covey
Image
'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.
Stephen Covey
Image
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
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
Be proactive. Ask yourself, Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?
Stephen Covey
Image
Life is a mission, not a career.
Stephen Covey
Image
The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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
You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
Stephen Covey
Image
Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
Stephen Covey
Image
Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Stephen Covey
Image
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
Stephen Covey
Image
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
Stephen Covey
Image
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
Stephen Covey
Image
Private victories precede public victories.
Stephen Covey
Image
As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
Stephen Covey