Stephen R. Covey

Accountability breeds responsibility.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

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.

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

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.

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

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Rules are meant to be broken.