Quotes from Stephen Covey

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

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