Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Covey was the author of the best-selling book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Other books he wrote include "First Things First", "Principle-Centered Leadership", and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families". In 2004, Covey released "The 8th Habit". In 2008, Covey released "The Leader In Me—How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time". He was also a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. You can purchase Stephen R. Covey's books and audios at http://www.7habitsstore.com
Covey died at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on July 16, 2012, due to complications from a bicycle accident he suffered the previous April.
“A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.”
Stephen Covey
“A tendency that’s run through your family for generations can stop with you. You’re a transition person – a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.”
Stephen Covey
“ketika kita memandang permasalahan dan beban itu berasal dari diri kita,justru pada saat itu sebenarnya kita lah yang bermasalah. sedangkan pepatah cina mengatakan "dari pada mengutuki kegelapan lebih baik ambil sebatang lilin dan nyalakan”
Stephen Covey
“Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.”
Stephen Covey
“Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic”
Stephen Covey
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
Stephen Covey
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
Stephen Covey
“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”
Stephen Covey
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
Stephen Covey
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
Stephen Covey
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
Stephen Covey
“Habit 1: Be ProactiveHabit 2: Begin with the End in MindHabit 3: Put First Things FirstHabit 4: Think Win/WinHabit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be UnderstoodHabit 6: SynergizeHabit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
Stephen Covey
“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
Stephen Covey
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
Stephen Covey
“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”
Stephen Covey
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
Stephen Covey
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.”
Stephen Covey
“There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.”
Stephen Covey
“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
Stephen Covey
“I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.”
Stephen Covey
“Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.”
Stephen Covey
“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
Stephen Covey