Beginners are many; finishers are few.
STEPHEN COVEYLeadership is a choice, not a position.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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