Stephen Covey Quotes
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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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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Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
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Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
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Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
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To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.