10 Quotes to Change Your Life by Stephen Covey

My daughter recently told me about reading Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of highly effective people and it reminded me of a list of quotes from Dr. Covey that helped guide my perspective on leadership.

1) The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities

2) The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

3) Live out of your imagination, not your history.

4) Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective

communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

5) Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what

is important.

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

7) You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage

pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way

you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is

often the “good.”

8) I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

9) Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving

actions. So love her.

10) Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy