Stephen Covey Quotes
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand…
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Borrowing strength builds weakness.
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Our character… is a composite of our habits.
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Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship.
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Real change comes from the inside out.
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We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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The law of the harvest governs; we will always reap what we sow – no more, no less.
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When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom.
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If we do not develop our self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances… to shape much of our lives by default.
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To focus on money making as a center will bring about its own undoing.
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People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated words of potential that lie within us.
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All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation.
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You begin with the end in mind.
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Organize and execute around priorities.
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True effectiveness requires balance.
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We can make a promise and keep it. Or we can set a goal and work to achieve it.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity.
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Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration.
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If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.
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Effective interdependence can only be built on a foundation of true independence.
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Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.
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If you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.
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If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.
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Happiness can be defined… as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want know for what we want eventually.
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
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The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the… habits of effectiveness.
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If you start to think the problem is ‘out there’, stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
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Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm – to forget to plan in spring, play all summer, and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest?
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The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make.
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You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
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Our most constant relationships, like marriage, require our most constant deposits into the Emotional Bank Account.
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