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Before Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do…
- To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
- Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
- Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is…
- The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of…
- Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
- It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
- Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
- During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them…
- To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice)…
- Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
- Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood