Stephen Covey Quotes
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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You can't live principals you can't understand.
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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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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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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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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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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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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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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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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."