Stephen Covey Quotes

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

When I leave this world, I don't want to leave just having a well-known name but having made a difference.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

I could make a difference.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Your legacy makes a difference.

I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.

What you do does matter. And people do remember it and feel it.

If you don't think a small act can make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

You can be a champion and you can be flashy with money and cars but you have a big platform. What are you trying to change?

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.