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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
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When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
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Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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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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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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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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Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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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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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
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Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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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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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.
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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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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
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