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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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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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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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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
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You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.
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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
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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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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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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 I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
Stephen Covey
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The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
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Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
Stephen Covey