Stephen Covey Victory Quotations

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.

Internal victories precede external victories.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Private victories precede public victories.

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.