Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
STEPHEN COVEYWhen you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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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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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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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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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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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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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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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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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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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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