Stephen Covey Quotes
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If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
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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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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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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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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."