Stephen Covey Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Leadership, Persistence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Basketball, Perseverance

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Business, Vision

• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, People, Feelings

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.98, Mango Media Inc.

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Leadership, Insperational

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Understanding, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, 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

• If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

  Stephen Covey

  Crazy, Reflection, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

• Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Imagination, Vision

• Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

  Stephen Covey

  Mind, Vision, Principles

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

• It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Catching Fire, Vision

  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”, Simon and Schuster

• ..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, People, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

• All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

  Stephen Covey

  Creativity, Keys, Blue

• A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Writing

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, p.159, Mango Media Inc.

• Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Decision, Challenges, Mind

• All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

  Stephen Covey

  Imagination, Goal, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

• Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Reflection, Frustration, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

• 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

• The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will find a pattern. Through their persistent efforts and inner struggle, they have greatly expanded their four native human intelligences or capacities. The highest manifestations of these four intelligences are: for mental, vision; for the physical, discipline; for the emotional, passion; for the spiritual, conscience. These manifestations also represent our highest means of expressing our voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Passion

• Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Passion, Adventure

  "First Things First".

• The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.

  Stephen Covey

  Accomplishment, Personality, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.583, Mango Media Inc.

• Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

  Stephen Covey

  Vision, Principles, Culture

• All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Years, Circles

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