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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Stephen Covey

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
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
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
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 must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Busy Deep Time
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
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Deep Inspirational Life Wisdom
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Boundary People Teaching Treat
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Change Deep Yourself
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Agreement Break Up Relationship
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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Limitation Motivational Ourselves
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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Heart Important Mindset Preparation
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

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