Stephen R. Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The ability to manage well doesn’t make much difference if you’re not even in the right jungle.

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

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

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.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

Problems are often opportunities coming at us in packaging that isn’t what we expect or want.- Donald J. Trump

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.