Stephen Covey Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Change, Family

• Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Family, Children, Father

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

• People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

  Stephen Covey

  Mom, Freedom, Exercise

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

  Stephen Covey

  Teenager, Parent, Understanding

  "Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People".

• All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Goal, Parent

  Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.181, Thomas Nelson

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