Stephen Covey Quotes About Inspirational
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
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...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
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Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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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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Begin with the end in mind.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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