Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
Stephen Covey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Long
Unworthy
Never
Accomplish
Worthy
Justice
Means
Running
Ends
Mean
More quotes by Stephen Covey
Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
Stephen Covey
It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
Stephen Covey
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
Stephen Covey
Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
Stephen Covey
The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
Stephen Covey
Be proactive. Ask yourself, Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?
Stephen Covey
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences violating them brings negative consequences.
Stephen Covey
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
Stephen Covey
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
we're responsible for our own lives.
Stephen Covey
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
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
Stephen Covey
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
Stephen Covey
Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people
Stephen Covey
Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way it's a better way, a higher way.
Stephen Covey
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
Stephen Covey
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
Stephen Covey
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
Stephen Covey
Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Stephen Covey
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
Stephen Covey
