Stephen R. Covey

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

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

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Time management is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.