Stephen Covey Quotes
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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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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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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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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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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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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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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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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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Organize and execute around priorities.