Stephen Covey Quotes
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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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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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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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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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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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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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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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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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
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Organize and execute around priorities.
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You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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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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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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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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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.