It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
STEPHEN COVEYLeadership is a choice, not a position.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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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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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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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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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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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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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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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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