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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.

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
Affirm
Potential
Motivational
Children
Believe
People

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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things fly out open windows until they spend themselves.
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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