Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEYOne 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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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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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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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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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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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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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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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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