Stephen R. Covey

Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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

Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.