“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.”
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”
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“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
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“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
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“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Source: An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life
“The way we see the problem is the problem.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
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“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
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“Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic”
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“..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“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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“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
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“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
“Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.”
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”
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“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”
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“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
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“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
“But borrowing strength builds weakness.”
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“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
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“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
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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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“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”
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“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”
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“I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”
“How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
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“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.”
“Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”
“There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”
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