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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.

Stephen Covey

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Foundation Life Principle Relationship Trust
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Character Commitment Inspirational Judgement Light Problem
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Past Potential Success
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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Character Children Heart Human Praise Recognition Understand Worth
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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Focus Important Motivational Yourself
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Result Success Yourself
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Deep Human One Liner Perspective Philosophy
To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Achievement Change Goal Inspirational Need
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Change Emotional Motivational Philosophy

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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