Stephen R. Covey

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

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

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

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

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Think Big and make it happen.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

I would say to do you and do you well. Don’t try to be anyone else. Don’t try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths. Even if you see someone onstage that is killing it, don’t try to do what they’re doing. Just keep doing you.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.