The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity. Stephen Covey More Quotes by Stephen Covey More Quotes From Stephen Covey To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction. Stephen Covey understandingmindmean Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Stephen Covey teamworkappreciationinspirational It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us. Stephen Covey hurtfundamentalspeople The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Stephen Covey essencefeelingspeople Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition. Stephen Covey abilitycircumstancesmotivational I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow. Stephen Covey teachtreatspeople If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication. Stephen Covey communicationkeyshealing How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. Stephen Covey love-lifeadversityinspirational Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic Stephen Covey lightleadershipcharacter You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. Stephen Covey reapshortcuts The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. Stephen Covey sowinglaw-of-attractiondifferent Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. Stephen Covey leadershipheartbelieve You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them. Stephen Covey great-thingsbusymistake Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity. Stephen Covey strugglemotivationalpeople When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well. Stephen Covey familychangerelationship We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles. Stephen Covey overcomingchallengescharacter Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important Stephen Covey inspirationchangecourage We don't invent our missions, we detect them. Stephen Covey missions All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result. Stephen Covey creativitykeysblue 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. Stephen Covey freedomencouragementchange
