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Top 500 Stephen R. Covey Quotes (2025 Update)
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Stephen R. Covey Quote: “In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “You can’t have the fruits without the roots. It’s the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another there’s going to be trouble.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can’t trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can’t perform, you’re not going to trust them either. You won’t trust them to get the job done.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence – natural ability notwithstanding.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “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.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “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.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “If you say to one flower, ‘Grow,’ but you water another, the first one won’t grow.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “We can’t live without eating, but we don’t live to eat.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Trust is a competency. It’s something you can get good at. It’s a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don’t; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm – to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “But borrowing strength builds weakness.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people’s agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.”
Stephen R. Covey Quote: “Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It’s more of an art it’s based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you’re dealing with personal leadership issues.”
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