Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 26

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• Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

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  Mother, Father, Integrity

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• When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

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  Freedom, Believe, Yield

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• You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.

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  Motivational, Action, Love Someone

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.

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  Motivational, Keys, Absence

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

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  Vision, Principles, Culture

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• Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Organization

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• Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

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  Victory, Algebra, Calculus

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.226, Mango Media Inc.

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• Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

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  Meaningful, Jobs, Unconditional Love

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• It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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  Success, Business, Book

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• We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

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  Impact, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

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  Mean, Church, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

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  Mistake, 7 Habits, One Thing

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “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”, p.283, Mango Media Inc.

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• 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

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  Opportunity, Expectations, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.184, Mango Media Inc.

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• What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you

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  Important, Persons

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

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  Profound, Challenges, World

  "The (R)evolution of 'What and Why' Into 'Who'” by Val Jon Farris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

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  Decision, Feelings, Personal Development

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.82, Mango Media Inc.

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• The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

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  Inspirational, Differences, Ability

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.180, Mango Media Inc.

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• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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  Power, Choices, Decision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

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  Differences, Vision, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “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”, p.560, Mango Media Inc.

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• Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

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  Children, Roles, Helping

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• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

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  Integrity, Real, Struggle

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• The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

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  Average, Television, Hours

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• When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.

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  Opportunity, Problem, Process

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• Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

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  Independent, Reality, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.59, Mango Media Inc.

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• Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

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  Principles, Guidelines, Endure

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.36, Mango Media Inc.

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