Stephen Covey Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Stephen Covey
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
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“The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.”
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“Private victories precede public victories.”
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“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”
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“Seek first to understand and then to be understood.”
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“Interdependency follows independence.”
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“Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.”
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“In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.”
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“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.”
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“The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.”
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“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
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