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He wrote a book called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.... He's got great wisdom for changing your life...

Here's some of his quotes...

“Begin with the end in mind.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“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.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

Steven Covey Quotes 

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“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, Author and Speaker

“If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

Steven Covey Quotes 

“Love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“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 Covey, Author and Speaker

“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

Steven Covey Quotes 

“Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Private victories precede public victories.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper "yes!" burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“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 Covey, Author and Speaker

Steven Covey Quotes

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“We have hit-and-run relationships, often leaving broken bodies and broken lives strewn along the path.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.” -- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker