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This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

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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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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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
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Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.
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Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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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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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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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
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Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
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The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves
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When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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