Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
STEPHEN COVEYYou have to water the flowers you want to grow.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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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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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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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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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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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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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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