Stephen Covey Quotes
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Integrity means avoiding any communication that is deceptive, full of guile, or beneath the dignity of people.
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Most all creative endeavors are somewhat unpredictable.
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Synergy is to value differences – to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are… as we are conditioned to see it.
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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Knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough… I want to listen…
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If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will soon be without the asset that produces golden eggs.
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The more we can see people in terms of their unseen potential, the more we can use our imagination rather than our memory…
Stephen Covey
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life.
Stephen Covey
Leo Roskin taught, ‘It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.’
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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. I can become my own… creator.
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Principles always have natural consequences attached to them.
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Expand your perspective by expanding your mind.
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Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation – either to time or to other people.
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Self respect comes from dominion over self, from true independence.
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If you cultivate the habit of always keeping the promises you make, you build bridges of trust that span the gaps of understanding between you and others.
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Integrity is… keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
Stephen Covey
Most of life is not a competition. … If both people aren’t winning, both are losing.
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See life through each other’s eyes.
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. … The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
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We seek not to imitate the masters, rather we seek what they sought.
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Education – continually honing and expanding the mind – is vital mental renewal.
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Proactive people can figure out many, many ways to educate themselves.
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There are times to teach and times not to teach.
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True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
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You are not your habits. You can replace old…with new…
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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When you can see only two alternatives – yours and the ‘wrong ‘ one … There’s almost always a third alternative…
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Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers.
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The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. … I believe that the basic problem is that their priorities have not become planted in their hearts and minds.
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Our tendency is to project out of our own autobiographies what we think other people want or need.
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In the long run, people will trust and respect you if you are honest and open and kind to them.
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Discernment is often far more accurate than either observation or measurement.
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All the well meaning advice in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans if we’re not addressing the real problem.
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Often when people are really given the chance to open up, they unravel their own problems and the solutions become clear to them in the process.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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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.
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Principles are not values… Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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