Stephen Covey Quotes About Commitment

Quotes about: Commitment

• Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Commitment, Light, Judging

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

• "If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Honesty

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.230, Mango Media Inc.

• Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Struggle, Commitment

• The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Commitment, Essence

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.108, Mango Media Inc.

• Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Leadership, Commitment

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

• As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Commitment, Responsibility

• Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

  Stephen Covey

  Military, Commitment, Important

  "First Things First".

• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Real, Struggle

• When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Integrity, Commitment

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Commitment, Discipline

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, Commitment, What Matters

• If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

  Stephen Covey

  Commitment, Wells, Ifs

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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