Stephen R. Covey

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

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

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.

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.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

In today’’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot in front of the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

If you have a dream, don’t let anybody take it away.

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

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.