Stephen Covey Quotes

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.

Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

God put us on this earth with the purpose of loving.

All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.

I just want to do something meaningful in the world. I want to contribute positively. That means the roles I get to play as well.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Live for Him and live with purpose.

One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all, you will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place.

Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.