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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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Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.
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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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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.
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An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
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The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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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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When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’
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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
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Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
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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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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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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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