Quotes about motivational
motivational action love-someone
You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless. Stephen Covey
motivational giving feedback
Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you. Stephen Covey
motivational simple inspire
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust. Stephen Covey
motivational keys absence
The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence. Stephen Covey
motivational mean self
The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are. Stephen Covey
motivational priorities top-priorities
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities. Stephen Covey
motivational flower water
If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow. Stephen Covey
motivational sacrifice thinking
Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?" Stephen Covey
motivational reality damage-control
In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control. Stephen Covey
motivational people challenges
I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge. Stephen Covey
motivational commitment discipline
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments. Stephen Covey
motivational wisdom knowledge
It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know. Stephen Covey
motivational issues choices
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good. Stephen Covey
motivational struggle people
Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity. Stephen Covey
motivational children believe
Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential. Stephen Covey
motivational change choices
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings. Stephen Covey
motivational character patterns
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. Stephen Covey
motivational fitness taste
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels. Stephen Covey
motivational thinking people
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently. Stephen Covey
motivational track borders
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations Stephen Covey
motivational team climbing
The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end. Stephen Covey
motivational self-confidence winning
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stephen Covey
motivational character emotional
You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it. Stephen Covey
motivational business knowledge
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen Covey
motivational people surround-yourself
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you. Stephen Covey
motivational circumstances ability
Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition. Stephen Covey
motivational trust priorities
It's better to be trusted than to be liked. Stephen Covey
motivational change emotional-appeal
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. Stephen Covey
motivational thinking keys
The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified. Stephen Covey
motivational mistake humility
The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride. Stephen Covey
motivational tasks overcoming
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life. Viktor E. Frankl
motivational expression challenges
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl
motivational attitude lasts
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. Viktor E. Frankl