Stephen R Covey quotes

" While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. " # Action # Choice # Freedom

" Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. " # Leaders and Leadership # Time and Time Management # Management

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

" Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system. " # Time and Time Management # Leaders and Leadership # Work

" In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day. " # Decisions # Conscience # Management

" Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. " # Management # Leaders and Leadership # Success

" Accountability breeds response-ability. " # Responsibility

" The way we see the problem is the problem. "

" We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. " # Change

" It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside. " # Vision # Love # Age and Aging