Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Stephen CoveyThe most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
Stephen CoveyIt is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey