Stephen Covey

United States
24 Oct 1932 // 16 Jul 2012
Educator, Author, Businessman

Quotes



Avoid fight or flight, talk through differences.
Prepare your heart and mind before you prepare your speech.
Refrain from saying the unkind or negative thing.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays