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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
Freedom
Comes
Empowerment
Within

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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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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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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Patience is emotional diligence.
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
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The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
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If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.
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