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You always reap what you sow there is no shortcut.

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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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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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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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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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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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Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
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The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
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The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.
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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
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