Quote

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

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
Physical
Affirmed
Understood
Unsatisfied
Greatest
Motivates
Next
Motivate
Human
Appreciated
Humans
Psychological
Need
Satisfied
Needs
Survival
Validated

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Stephen Covey
Image
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
Stephen Covey
Image
To know and not to do is not to know.
Stephen Covey
Image
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
Stephen Covey
Image
Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.
Stephen Covey
Image
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
Stephen Covey
Image
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
Stephen Covey
Image
It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
Stephen Covey
Image
Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
Stephen Covey
Image
You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
Stephen Covey
Image
Effective people are not problem-minded they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Stephen Covey
Image
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
Stephen Covey
Image
Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
Stephen Covey
Image
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things fly out open windows until they spend themselves.
Stephen Covey
Image
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
Stephen Covey
Image
Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
Stephen Covey
Image
Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
Stephen Covey
Image
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
Stephen Covey