Stephen R. Covey

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.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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

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.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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.

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on the smoothest road.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

There will be times when your best isn’t your good enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best you’ll be OK.

That, you have to leave your comfort zone.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

I’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word ‘grow.’

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.