Stephen Covey Quotes
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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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
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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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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Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.
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Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.
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Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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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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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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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 human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.