Stephen Covey Quotes
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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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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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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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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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.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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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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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.
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Internal victories precede external victories.