We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
STEPHEN COVEYOur ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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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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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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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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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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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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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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