Stephen R. Covey

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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

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

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

It was incredible because it was forced humility. Previously, I would’ve looked at humility as more of a negative thing.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

Impossible is just an opinion.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

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