Quote

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

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
Keys
Inspiration
Quality
Reason
Right
Way
Things
Life
Management

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Stephen Covey
Image
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
Stephen Covey
Image
Proactive people carry their own weather with them.
Stephen Covey
Image
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
Image
Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
Stephen Covey
Image
Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
Stephen Covey
Image
You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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
An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.
Stephen Covey
Image
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen Covey
Image
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
Stephen Covey
Image
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
Stephen Covey
Image
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
Stephen Covey
Image
When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
Stephen Covey
Image
It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
Stephen Covey
Image
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Stephen Covey
Image
The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.
Stephen Covey
Image
Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
Stephen Covey
Image
Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
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