Stephen Covey Quotes About Integrity

Quotes about: Integrity

• One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Important, Loyal

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

• But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yesterday

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

• I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

• Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Reality, Keeping Promises

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.241, Mango Media Inc.

• Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Integrity, Relationships With Others

• Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

  Stephen Covey

  Mother, Children, Father

• 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.

• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Relationship, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

• Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Honesty

• Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Heart, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

• Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Skills

• As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Space, Choices

  "First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

• By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Integrity, Way

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

• Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Integrity, Heart

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

• The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Heart, Loving Yourself

• The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Passion, World Religions

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

• If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Integrity, Independent

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

• Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Mother, Father, Integrity

• You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Humble

• To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.

  Stephen Covey

  Strong, Integrity, Character

• The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Keys, Games

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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