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• That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

  Thomas Paine

  Appreciation, Pain, Democracy

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• A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Fundamentals, Personal Worth

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

  Mother Teresa

  Unique, Contribution, Seven Habits

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• Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

  Stephen Covey

  Mind, Vision, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

  Stephen Covey

  Air, Rejection, Emotion

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

  Stephen Covey

  Imagination, Goal, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

  Stephen Covey

  Treats, Interpersonal Skills, Regard

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• But borrowing strength builds weakness.

  Stephen Covey

  Weakness, Personal Development, Borrowing

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.44, Mango Media Inc.

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, People, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

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• 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

  Stephen Covey

  Winning, Thinking, Mind

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• Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Honesty, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.25, Mango Media Inc.

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Perception, Lenses, Looks

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

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• People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Core, Ifs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Life Changing

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.198, Mango Media Inc.

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• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Leadership, Insperational

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

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

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, One Thing, Seven Habits

  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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• ...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Students, Knows

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The way we see the problem is the problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Way

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Courage, Inspiration

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yesterday

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Love Life, Adversity

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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