Stephen Covey Quotes
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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One thing about trust is that everyone's for it.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
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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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You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
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Organize and execute around priorities.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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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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We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).
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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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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
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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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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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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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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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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.