Stephen Covey Quotes

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

If they don't care about me, how can they possibly care about anyone else?

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Not everyone is as nice as us.

Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.