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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

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
Choice
Choices
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Moments
Truth

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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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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
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I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.
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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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The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves
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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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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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Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
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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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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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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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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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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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