Stephen R. Covey

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Accountability breeds responsibility.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Priority is a function of context.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Priority is a function of context.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Look in my eyes right now – you see no sunken place.

Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?