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.
