Circle Of Influence Quotes

• Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Emotional, Practice

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• Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Input, Life Is, People In Your Life

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• Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

  Stephen Covey

  Cancer, Emotional, Circles

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• The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Character, Circles

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, Play, People

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.651, Zondervan

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• If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Circles, Want

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 14, 2013

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• There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Compassion, Circles, Differences

  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”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

  John Assaraf

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sorry

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 05, 2014

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• Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Real, Lying

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• God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2012

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Circles, Progress, Use

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.69, Harmony

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• All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Years, Circles

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• The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.

  Robert G. Allen

  Opportunity, Circles, Genius

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• Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

  John Angell James

  Heart, Character, Rich Or Poor

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• Righteous women in their circle of influence,
  beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Home, Circles, World

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