Stephen Covey Quotes

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Everything changes when you change.

For things to change for you, you've got to change!

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.

Change your thinking, change your life.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?