Stephen Covey Quotes
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.
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You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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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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Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
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What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities