The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves Stephen Covey More Quotes by Stephen Covey More Quotes From Stephen Covey Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again. Stephen Covey progressmovingthinking Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. Stephen Covey simplicityprinciplessides If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man. Stephen Covey work-ethicgivingmen An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations. Stephen Covey abundance-mentalityassociationspring A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. Stephen Covey changewritinglife Public behavior is merely private character writ large. Stephen Covey personal-developmentbehaviorcharacter Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences. Stephen Covey educatedprinciplespeople Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms. Stephen Covey mutualcontradictionterm Proactive people carry their own weather with them. Stephen Covey proactiveweatherpeople It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know. Stephen Covey wisdommotivationalknowledge I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life. Stephen Covey readingbelievebook If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being. Stephen Covey control-myselfwifeunconditional-love If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. Stephen Covey teenagerunderstandingparent Principles are the territory. Values are maps. Stephen Covey mapsterritoryprinciples A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. Stephen Covey motivationwisdomleadership Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now. Stephen Covey acceptingwaymoving If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow Stephen Covey ignoranceaskingteacher The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision. Stephen Covey visionaccomplishmentpersonality You can't live principals you can't understand. Stephen Covey principalunderstanding Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination. Stephen Covey eyeimaginationmind
