Stephen R. Covey

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

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

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.

You can start where you are with what you’ve got and go to wherever it is you want to go.

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Without passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.