Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

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

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.