By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
Stephen CoveyMotivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen CoveyOur problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
Stephen CoveyMake specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.
Stephen CoveyInevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
Stephen Covey