Stephen Covey Quotes
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
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The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.
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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
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Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.
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Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
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Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
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Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.
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All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.
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We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
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The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position
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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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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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Interdependency follows independence.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.