The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.
Life is a mission and not a career,
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.
When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.
We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, If you pick up one end of the stick, you pic...
The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
At one seminar where I was speaking on the concept of proactivity, a man came up and said, Stephen, I like what you’re saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I’m really worr...
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The only person I know, is the person I want to be
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can’t recall them, we can’t undo them, w...
Animals do not possess this ability. We call it self-awareness or the ability to think about your very thought process.
Leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.