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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

Stephen Covey

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Family Kindness Relationship
Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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Bury Teamwork
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Past Potential Success
Internal victories precede external victories.
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Success Victory
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
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Greatness Learning Mistake Yourself
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
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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Emotional Listening Reflection View
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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Burn Inspirational Motivational Success
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Change Emotional Motivational Philosophy
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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Action Hands Inspirational Leadership Motivational
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Improvement Inspirational Integrity Relationship
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Company Motivational People Talent Yourself
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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Creative Exercise Opportunity Perspective Problem
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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Heart Important Mindset Preparation

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

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