Quotes

“The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.” Stephen Covey

“Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.” Stephen Covey

“When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.” Stephen Covey

“Public behavior is merely private character writ large.” Stephen Covey

“The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.” Stephen Covey

“Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.” Stephen Covey

“You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.” Stephen Covey

“Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.” Stephen Covey

“The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.” Stephen Covey

“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.” Stephen Covey

“It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.” Stephen Covey

“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!” Stephen Covey

“Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.” Stephen Covey

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” Joseph Campbell

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell

“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.” Joseph Campbell

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.” Joseph Campbell

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” Joseph Campbell

“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.” Joseph Campbell

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” Joseph Campbell

“Love is a friendship set to music.” Joseph Campbell

“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.” Joseph Campbell

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” Joseph Campbell

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” Joseph Campbell

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.” Joseph Campbell

“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.” Joseph Campbell

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” Joseph Campbell