Stephen Covey Way Quotations

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act

Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.