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At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
Stephen Covey
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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.
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I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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To know and not to do is not to know.
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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
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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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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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