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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.

Stephen Covey

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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Emotional Listening Reflection View
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World
When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Commitment Inspirational Integrity Motivational
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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Compassion Difference Ourselves Service
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Philosophy See Yourself
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
Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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Bury Teamwork
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Challenge Inspirational One Liner Risk
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Future Important Inspirational
It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Motivational Trust
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
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Busy Deep Time
While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Ourselves Reaction

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