We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
STEPHEN COVEYThere are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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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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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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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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