Stephen R. Covey

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

People simply feel better about themselves when they__e good at something.

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It__ not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

Where westand depends on where we sit.

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.