Quote

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

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
Sense
People
Hurts
Fundamental
Fundamentals
Chosen
Response
Hurt

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
Stephen Covey
Image
Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
Stephen Covey
Image
I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
Stephen Covey
Image
Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
Stephen Covey
Image
Everyone has values even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
Stephen Covey
Image
Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
Stephen Covey
Image
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
Stephen Covey
Image
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
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
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
Stephen Covey
Image
Life is a mission, not a career.
Stephen Covey
Image
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
Image
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
Image
The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
Stephen Covey
Image
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Stephen Covey
Image
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
Stephen Covey