Stephen Covey Quotes About Change
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Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
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We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
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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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To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
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