Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Aren
Earthquake
Deep
Earthquakes
Principles
Theft
Fire
Truths
Gone
Classic
Dies
Fundamental
Next
Fundamentals
Destroyed
More quotes by Stephen Covey
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen Covey
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
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Stephen Covey
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
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
Stephen Covey
It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
Stephen Covey
Life is a mission, not a career.
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
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen Covey
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Stephen Covey
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.
Stephen Covey
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Stephen Covey
When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.
Stephen Covey
Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?
Stephen Covey
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Stephen Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen Covey
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
Stephen Covey
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
Stephen Covey
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
Stephen Covey