Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
STEPHEN COVEYWe judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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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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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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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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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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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 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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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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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.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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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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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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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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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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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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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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