Stephen R. CoveyThinkers

Character is a composite of our habits.

Happiness is the fruit of the desire to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Management is discipline, carrying it out, whereas leadership is putting first things.

Management is contrasted with leadership in that while management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success, leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Trust is the glue of life, the foundational principle that holds all relationships and all communication.

Truth is the highest form of human motivation.

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