Stephen R. Covey

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.

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

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

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m a driver… I love driving.. I’m driven.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The world’s most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes.