More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
Stephen CoveyTrust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
Stephen CoveyBe proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
Stephen CoveyWhen you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
Stephen CoveyYou can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
Stephen Covey'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.
Stephen Covey