Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
STEPHEN COVEYSeek to understand before you seek to be understood.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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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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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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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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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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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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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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