Stephen Covey Quotes

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

Direction is more important than speed. You can go fast in the wrong direction.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision.

You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself, "Is this not moving me toward where we need to be?" I believe that's helpful because a vision pulls you forward and it keeps you focused. A vision for the day, for the week, for the month and a lifelong vision - whatever works for you. And then you govern your activities and your behaviors accordingly.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

No wind makes for him that hath no intended port to sail into.

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

Everything I do has a purpose for my goal, which is to create a buzz.

I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want.

I start with an end in mind. In everything.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.