Stephen R. Covey

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

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

Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.

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

Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

Look in my eyes right now – you see no sunken place.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.