Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 15

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• We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

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  Motivational, Track, Borders

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.148, Mango Media Inc.

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• Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

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  Compromise, Without Trust, Can Do

  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.314, Mango Media Inc.

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• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

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  Adventure, Effectiveness, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

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  Motivational

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

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  Careers, Decision, Influence

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

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  Treats, 7 Habits, Interpersonal Skills

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.235, Mango Media Inc.

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• If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

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  Heart, Compassion, Know How

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• To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.

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  Strong, Integrity, Character

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• Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

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  Happiness, Pursuit Of Happiness, Planning

  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.469, Mango Media Inc.

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• The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.

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  Integrity, Heart, Loving Yourself

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• You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

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  Thinking, Effectiveness, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

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• Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

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  Garden, Giving, Gardener

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

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  Character, Catching Fire, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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• People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

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  Motivational, Thinking, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Essence, People, Vision

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

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• Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

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  Success, Greatness, Men

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

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  Life, Change, Honesty

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• The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

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  Meaningful, Jobs, Home

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.

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  Passion, Fire, Needs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

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  Teenager, Parent, Understanding

  "Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People".

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• Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

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  People, Blame, Environment

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• Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

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  Success, Business, Character

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• Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.

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  Jobs, Lying, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

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  Integrity, Commitment, Responsibility

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• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

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  Life, Change, Team

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