Stephen Covey Quotes

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• I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that…
• 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…
• If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
• People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until…
• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
• Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three…
• Beginners are many; finishers are few.
• Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment,…
• Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
• Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
• Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we…
• The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if…
• Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what…
• Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those…
• How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
• All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things
• There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to…
• Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.
• Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
• Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which…

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