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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Stephen Covey

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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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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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Your economic security does not lie in your job it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth it's having the power to produce wealth.
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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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Balance isn't either/or it's 'and'.
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To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
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Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
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A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
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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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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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