Dr.Stephen Covey's quotes


Live out of your imagination, not your history.


Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.



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.


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 and to change.


Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and the ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.


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.


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.


Dr.Stephen R.Covey is the best-selling author of the books

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,
First Things First,
Principle-Centered Leadership &
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families.

He is a Motivational Speaker, Management Guru & is the head of FranklinCovey, a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their mission statement reads: “We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere”.

Covey's most well-known book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1989. (The audio version became the first non-fiction audio-book in U.S. publishing history to sell more than one million copies.)