Stephen Covey Quotes

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

One's character is reflected in their choices after all. I'm glad to have been making ones that make my heart soar.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

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.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.