Stephen Covey

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Internal victories precede external victories.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.