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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
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Management
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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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The enemy of the best is often the good.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.
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Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
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Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
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When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.
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In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
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While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
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The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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Proactive people carry their own weather with them.
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within it is a function of your independent will.
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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