You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
STEPHEN COVEYPrepare 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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If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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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 develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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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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