Stephen Covey Quotes

220 Stephen Covey Quotes (Stephen R Covey Quotes)

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Be a model, not a critic.
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Put the big rocks in first.
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Where there’s no gardener there’s no garden.
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The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of our own heart.
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You can buy people’s hands, but you can’t buy their hearts.
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You can buy their backs, but you can’t buy their brains.
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‘Time management’ is really a misnomer – the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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It is possible to be busy – very busy – without being very effective.
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Act or be acted upon.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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No involvement, no commitment.
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You can decide within yourself how circumstances will affect you.
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It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.
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We are limited, but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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Effective people are not problem minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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You can’t be successful with other people if you haven’t paid the price of success with yourself.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity.
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I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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What is important to the other person must be as important to you as the other person is to you.
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It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them.
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The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do.
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In every day are found a few hard moments, which if we are strong in, make everything else like ‘a piece of cake’. But if we are weak in those moments – if we cave in to the temptation of taking the lower road – then we will find ourselves caving in on many things.
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Be proactive.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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Put first things first.
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Think Win/Win.
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Seek first to understand.. then be understood.
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Synergize.
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Sharpen the saw.
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Complement, don’t criticize, your boss.
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Marriages don’t die from in-law problems or financial challenges; they die from not having an immune system to handle challenges and differences.
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I have come in contact with many individuals who have achieved an incredible degree of outward success, but have found themselves struggling with an inner hunger, a deep need for personal congruency and effectiveness and for healthy, growing relationships with other people.
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The pattern of true growth and development may occur from the inside-out, but we are driven to it from the outside-in – from the need that all of us have to serve, to matter, to contribute to the lives of others and to society, to be involved in something of transcendent meaning – to leave a legacy.
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If we want to change a situation, we first have to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first have to change our perceptions.
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We must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and understand that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
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Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference – or will it just increase the pace at which I react to the people and circumstances that seem to control my life?
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Many people experience a fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role, such as that of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, manager or leader.
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