70+ Stephen Covey Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Greatness Learning Mistake Yourself
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Change Emotional Motivational Philosophy
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Busy Deep Time
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Motivational Trust
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
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
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
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Apple Deep
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World
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
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
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Discipline Freedom Passion Slave
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Boundary People Teaching Treat
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Improvement Inspirational Integrity Relationship
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Flower Inspirational Water Yourself
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Change Decision Ourselves
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Company Motivational People Talent 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
There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Change Choice Life Philosophy Principle
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
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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Different Inspirational Love Life Ourselves
Internal victories precede external victories.
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Success Victory

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