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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

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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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Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences violating them brings negative consequences.
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Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
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If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life it creates new untapped alternatives it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
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The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.
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