Everyone at the Character Education Partnership was deeply saddened to hear of the tragic death of Stephen Covey. He served on CEP’s National Leadership Council for many years.
Dr. Covey’s prolific writings were a great influence on me personally and the way I approached leadership and management. He taught millions of others throughout the nation and world not only how to be better managers, but how to be better people.
Stephen Covey was a remarkable teacher, a man of great principle and faith, a loyal and caring husband and father. Our thoughts and prayers are with Dr. Covey’s family at this very difficult time.
Mark Hyatt
President & CEO
Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
and National Leadership Council member for CEP
The wisdom of Stephen Covey—10 quotes that relate to developing people of good character:
1. There are three constants in life – change, choice and principles.
2. You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.
3. Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
4. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
5. In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
6. While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
7. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.
8. If we do not teach our children, society will. And they-and we—will live with the results.
9. By making and keeping promises, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our mood.
10. Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, our habits constantly, daily express our character.
