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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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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
Stephen Covey
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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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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As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem
Stephen Covey
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You can't live principals you can't understand.
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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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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
Stephen Covey
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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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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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Stephen Covey