Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen Covey
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. - Stephen Covey
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it. - Stephen Covey
Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. - Stephen Covey
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. - Stephen Covey
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well. - Stephen Covey
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking. - Stephen Covey
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. - Stephen Covey
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. - Stephen Covey
Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service. - Zig Ziglar
Every day is an opportunity to reinvent yourself, tell yourself you are going to do something better today than you did yesterday. - Tom Bilyeu
The moment of awakening is when we realize that you decide what to hear and what to take away from what people say. - Tom Bilyeu
