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Stephen Covey Inspirational Quotes (384)

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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
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A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within it is a function of your independent will.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which life is made.
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We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
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I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.
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You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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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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Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
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The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
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