You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
STEPHEN COVEYHow 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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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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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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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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