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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Stephen Covey

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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Inspirational Life Place Right Wrong
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
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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Experience Kind Value Yourself
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
It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Wrong
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
What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Philosophy See Yourself
He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Belief Deal Himself Life
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Different Expectation Life Problem
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
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Apple Deep
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Result Success Yourself
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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Business Heart Loyalty Person Yourself
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
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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Business Expectation Forgiveness Freedom Hate Heart

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