Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
STEPHEN COVEYWhat you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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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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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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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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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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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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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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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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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.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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