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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul. (David O. McKay).

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.
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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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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
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Interdependency follows independence.
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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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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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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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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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People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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