Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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Priority is a function of context.
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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.
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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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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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Leadership is a choice, not a position
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When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
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You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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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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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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I think that respect for people is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.