Quote

The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.

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
Spiritual
Doe
Breed
Fountain
Worldly
Spirituality
Depth

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
Stephen Covey
Image
In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.
Stephen Covey
Image
Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
Stephen Covey
Image
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
Stephen Covey
Image
Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
Stephen Covey
Image
Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
Stephen Covey
Image
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Stephen Covey
Image
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
Stephen Covey
Image
The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.
Stephen Covey
Image
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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
True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Stephen Covey
Image
Private victories precede public victories.
Stephen Covey
Image
If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.
Stephen Covey
Image
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
Stephen Covey
Image
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
Stephen Covey
Image
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
Stephen Covey
Image
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
Stephen Covey
Image
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Stephen Covey
Image
Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations
Stephen Covey