Stephen Covey Keys Quotations

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

The key to motivation is motive.

The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.