Stephen R. Covey

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

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

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.

Time management is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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.

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

Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

“Success in life is knowing the difference between ham and eggs; the chicken’s involved, the pig is committed.”

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.