Stephen Covey Quotes

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

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.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

I stress character, character, character.