Stephen Covey Quotes
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The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
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I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
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Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
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The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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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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Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
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What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
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Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.
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When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.