Stephen R. Covey quotes:

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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.

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

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.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people.

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.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.