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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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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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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
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we're responsible for our own lives.
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I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
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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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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
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We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
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..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
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I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
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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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Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
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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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