Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
STEPHEN COVEYWe must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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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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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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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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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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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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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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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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