Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
STEPHEN COVEYMotivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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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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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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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 change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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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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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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