Stephen Covey Quotes
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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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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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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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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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.