If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
STEPHEN COVEYIt doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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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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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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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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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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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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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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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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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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