Stephen Covey Quotes

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

I'm somebody who gets up every day and says, 'What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?' I think it moves me toward some outcome I'm hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.

I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

I focus my energy on what I believe in.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.