Quote

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within it is a function of your independent will.

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
Discipline
Leadership
Within
Comes
Manager
Self
Managers
Effective
Independent
Function

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
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
Image
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
Image
To know and not to do is not to know.
Stephen Covey
Image
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
Image
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.
Stephen Covey
Image
We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
Stephen Covey
Image
When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.
Stephen Covey
Image
Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
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
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
Stephen Covey
Image
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
Stephen Covey
Image
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
Stephen Covey
Image
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
Stephen Covey
Image
I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.
Stephen Covey
Image
It's not that we ignore our weaknesses rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
Stephen Covey
Image
Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
Stephen Covey
Image
All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
Stephen Covey
Image
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
Stephen Covey