Stephen Covey Quotes

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.

Just in terms of the demeanor and the approach and just making sure that I'm consistent in the way I do things - that is the biggest thing for me.

The belt doesn't represent me; it's how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I've always treated women well.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

What you are will show in what you do.

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.