{"id":1297,"date":"2012-07-23T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startwp.logomaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/10-inspiring-quotes-from-stephen-covey\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:09:25","slug":"10-inspiring-quotes-from-stephen-covey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startwp.logomaker.com\/blog\/10-inspiring-quotes-from-stephen-covey\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Inspiring Quotes from Stephen Covey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.logomaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/10-inspiring-quotes-from-stephen-covey\/stephen-covey\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2143\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2143\" title=\"Stephen Covey\" alt=\"Stephen Covery Photograph\" src=\"https:\/\/startwp.logomaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Stephen-Covey.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a>We were saddened last week to learn of the death of author Stephen R. Covey. He was famous as a professor of business, a speaker and consultant whose writing on organizational and personal behavior impacted millions of people. But Dr. Covey will always be <em>most<\/em> famous for writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743269519\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=brandstory08-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0743269519\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(Opens a new window)\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People<\/em><\/a>, which sold more than 25 million copies. He was once named amount <em>Time<\/em> magazine&#8217;s Most Influential Americans and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Through his distinguished career, he wrote and said so many things that still inspire us as business people and human beings. He truly lived his own admonition to&nbsp;\u201clive, love, laugh, leave a legacy.\u201d Here are a few more things that Dr. Covey said that we find inspirational:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSeek first to understand, then to be understood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage\u2014pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say \u201cno\u201d to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger \u201cyes\u201d burning inside. The enemy of the \u201cbest\u201d is often the \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLive out your imagination, not your history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first choice we make each and every day is, &#8220;Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Stephen R. Covey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were saddened last week to learn of the death of author Stephen R. Covey. 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