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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.

Stephen Covey

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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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Different Expectation Life Problem
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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Action Hands Inspirational Leadership Motivational
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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Limitation Motivational Ourselves
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
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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Character Children Heart Human Praise Recognition Understand Worth
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Action Inspirational Life Motivational
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Agreement Break Up Relationship
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Change Inspirational Ourselves Perspective
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Belief Deal Himself Life
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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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Act Humility Seek Understand Wisdom

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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