Stephen Covey Quotes
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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If there is no gardener there is no garden.
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People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie.
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If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
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Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
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One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
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The deepest hunger of a child's human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
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...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.
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An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
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Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
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Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.
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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.
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Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people