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Stephen Covey Inspirational Quotes (384)

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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?
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Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
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An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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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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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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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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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
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Patience is emotional diligence.
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We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more when we expect less, we tend to get less.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
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In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
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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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