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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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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.
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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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The key to motivation is motive.
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
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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.
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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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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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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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Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
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