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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Stephen Covey

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
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
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
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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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
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
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Challenge Inspirational One Liner Risk
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
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Important Inspirational Life Time
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Deep Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Apple Deep
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Empathy Human Important Skill

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