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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Stephen Covey

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Flower Inspirational Water Yourself
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Apple Deep
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
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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Experience Kind Value Yourself
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Future Important Inspirational
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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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
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
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
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
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Greatness Learning Mistake Yourself
Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Business Expectation Forgiveness Freedom Hate Heart
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Best Motivational Patience People Time Trust
The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Different Expectation Life Problem
Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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Right Wonder Yourself
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Deep Human One Liner Perspective Philosophy

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