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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.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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