The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
STEPHEN COVEYThe key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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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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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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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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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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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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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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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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