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By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered in the task of creating effective, useful, and peaceful lives for ourselves, and for our posterity.


Stephen R. Covey

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STEPHEN R. COVEY Those have most power to hurt us, that we love
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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.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it...
STEPHEN R. COVEY While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginati...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Ps...
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Live out of your imagination, not your history.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
STEPHEN R. COVEY When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
STEPHEN R. COVEY The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
STEPHEN R. COVEY We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individua...
STEPHEN R. COVEY The way we see the problem is the problem
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STEPHEN R. COVEY People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. Pe...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
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STEPHEN R. COVEY activities that are important, but not urgent.
STEPHEN R. COVEY If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consist...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Start with the end in mind.
STEPHEN R. COVEY There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Interdependency follows independence.
STEPHEN R. COVEY You can say 'No' and smile only when there is a bigger 'Yes' burning inside of you.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY We see the world, not as it is, but as we areor, as we are conditioned to see it.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY One of the best parts of being a family is that you can encourage one another. You can believe in on...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Any time you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Plante uma idéia, colha uma ação; plante uma ação, colha um hábito; plante um hábito, colha u...
STEPHEN R. COVEY If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
STEPHEN R. COVEY The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder a...
STEPHEN R. COVEY If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong pl...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation...
STEPHEN R. COVEY We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.
STEPHEN R. COVEY The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with se...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
STEPHEN R. COVEY When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
STEPHEN R. COVEY In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
STEPHEN R. COVEY We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begi...
STEPHEN R. COVEY The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
STEPHEN R. COVEY We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
STEPHEN R. COVEY There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Priority is a function of context.
STEPHEN R. COVEY The noise of urgency creates an illusion of importance
STEPHEN R. COVEY When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called "success". But o...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Any time you wrap your emotional life around the weaknesses of another person, you empower those wea...
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STEPHEN R. COVEY You can't live principals you can't understand.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
STEPHEN R. COVEY The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and...
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STEPHEN R. COVEY People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability t...
STEPHEN R. COVEY The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
STEPHEN R. COVEY The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, ou...
STEPHEN R. COVEY It doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you are going. You can't talk...
STEPHEN R. COVEY The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
STEPHEN R. COVEY To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy
STEPHEN R. COVEY Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yest...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Seek first to understand, then to be understood
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STEPHEN R. COVEY The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile
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STEPHEN R. COVEY You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Really seeking to understand another person is probably one of the most important deposits you can m...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Nothing you do is a deposit unless the other person perceives it as such.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to valu...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education
STEPHEN R. COVEY There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is ca...
STEPHEN R. COVEY How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that pic...
STEPHEN R. COVEY The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
STEPHEN R. COVEY It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Accountability breeds response-ability.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
STEPHEN R. COVEY By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Win win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolated techniques, they won'...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Private victories precede public victories.
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STEPHEN R. COVEY Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psycholog...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
STEPHEN R. COVEY At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourse...
STEPHEN R. COVEY It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
STEPHEN R. COVEY Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the f...
STEPHEN R. COVEY People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim u...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be...
STEPHEN R. COVEY We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens it...
STEPHEN R. COVEY There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of...
STEPHEN R. COVEY How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
STEPHEN R. COVEY As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of thems...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
STEPHEN R. COVEY It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mist...
STEPHEN R. COVEY If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - my...
STEPHEN R. COVEY My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a cha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First<...
STEPHEN R. COVEY To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
STEPHEN R. COVEY To know and not to do is really not to know.
STEPHEN R. COVEY People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
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STEPHEN COVEY Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
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STEPHEN COVEY While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
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STEPHEN COVEY As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from oth...
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STEPHEN COVEY The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN COVEY Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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STEPHEN COVEY You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non...
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STEPHEN COVEY It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extra...
STEPHEN COVEY You can't live principals you can't understand.
STEPHEN COVEY Priority is a function of context.
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STEPHEN COVEY Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
STEPHEN COVEY Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEY The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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STEPHEN COVEY I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
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STEPHEN COVEY The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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STEPHEN COVEY Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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STEPHEN COVEY The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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STEPHEN COVEY There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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STEPHEN COVEY Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
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