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Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

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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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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.
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Values determine behavior Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way it's a better way, a higher way.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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