Stephen Covey Quotes
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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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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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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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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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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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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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.