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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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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Eloquently
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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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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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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
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We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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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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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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When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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Your economic security does not lie in your job it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth it's having the power to produce wealth.
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Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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