Stephen Covey Quotes
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
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Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change. The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.
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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.
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Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
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You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
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Life is a mission, not a career.
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Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
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Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
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All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.