Stephen Covey

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

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.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

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.