Quotes about Growth
There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.
— Stephen Covey
Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.
— Stephen Covey
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits
— Stephen Covey
it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
— Stephen Covey
We decided to relax and get out of his way and let his own personality emerge.
— Stephen Covey
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. It's inside-out.
— Stephen Covey
in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.
— Stephen Covey
The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
— Stephen Covey
Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk." It's honor with self, a fundamental part of the Character Ethic, the essence of proactive growth.
— Stephen Covey
It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.
— Stephen Covey
Our home is a place of fun, relaxation, learning, friends, growth, and order, to develop ourselves into the kinds of people who can contribute to the world.
— Stephen Covey
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
— Stephen Covey