I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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.
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.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Begin with the end in mind.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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