Stephen Covey Quotes

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Responsibility educates.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

There is no debt more lawful than the word of a just man nor anything which binds our actions more than a promise.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.