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I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.

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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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It's not enough to have values without vision you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.
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There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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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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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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Proactive people carry their own weather with them.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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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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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
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Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
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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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More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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