Stephen Covey

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

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.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.