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When i learnt to smile in times of trouble and tribulations, the devil gets confused, because he knows not what makes me happy


Stephen .R. Anyaegbu

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STEPHEN R. COVEY Joy is in the ears that hear, not the mouth that speaks.
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON 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 To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reaso...
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim u...
STEPHEN R. COVEY I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living th...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD 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 Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories a...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD 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 Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.’ He turned to the High King and said, ‘The hurt ...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today
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