Stephen R. Covey

Accountability breeds response-ability.

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

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

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole–the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives — you’ll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself, “Nothing is impossible!!!”

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

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

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