Stephen Covey Quotes
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Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
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In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
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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.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
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I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.
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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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Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
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Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
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When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position