Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition — such as lifting weights — we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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.