Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
STEPHEN COVEYMotivation 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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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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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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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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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 teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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