Stephen Covey Quotes

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

I want my clients to trust me.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Only men of character are trusted.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

Loyalty and honesty, those are important.

I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family.

I am not a cheater.