Stephen R. Covey Quotes

• There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

  Stephen R. Covey

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• We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

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• Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

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• The way we see the problem is the problem.

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• Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

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

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• I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

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• Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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• A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.

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• 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.

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• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

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  Topics in Leadership, Power

  Tags in Motivating, Product, Choice

• There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

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• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

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

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• Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

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

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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• It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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  Tags in Information, Television, Learning, Book

• In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

  Stephen R. Covey

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• 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.

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  Tags in Awareness, Change, Freedom, Talent, Choice, Imagination, Conscience

Stephen R. Covey (29)

Birth:	24th October, 1932
Death:	16th July, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businessman, Consultant, Educator, Professor, Writer

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