Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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
Victory
Fruits
Discipline
Mastery
Principles
Principle
Public
Relationships
Others
Fruit
Without
Roots
Sequencing
Self
Private
Victories
Good
Foundation
Proceed
More quotes by Stephen Covey
Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
Stephen Covey
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Stephen Covey
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
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
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within it is a function of your independent will.
Stephen Covey
True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Stephen Covey
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
Stephen Covey
Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.
Stephen Covey
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Stephen Covey
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
Stephen Covey
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
Stephen Covey
When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.
Stephen Covey
What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
Stephen Covey
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
Stephen Covey
You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
Stephen Covey
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
Stephen Covey
Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
Stephen Covey
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
When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
Stephen Covey
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
Stephen Covey
