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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.

Stephen Covey

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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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The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul. (David O. McKay).
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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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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Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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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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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
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Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
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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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We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
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In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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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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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
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