Quote

The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.

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
Conscience
Peace
Soul
Heart
Inspires
Integrity
Loving
Inspire

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
Stephen Covey
Image
The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.
Stephen Covey
Image
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen Covey
Image
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
Image
Frustration is a function of our expectations.
Stephen Covey
Image
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
Stephen Covey
Image
The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
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
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Stephen Covey
Image
The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.
Stephen Covey
Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
Stephen Covey
Image
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey
Image
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey
Image
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey
Image
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
Stephen Covey
Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots.
Stephen Covey
Image
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
Image
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
Stephen Covey