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Motivational Quotes by Stephen Covey
- I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
- Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
- We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
- Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they…
- The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one,…
- You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire,…
- 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…
- We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good…
- Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
- I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important…
- In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better.…
- Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
- The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you…
- You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
- In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results…
- We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we…
- It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses…
- Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
- Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for…
- How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about…
- Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
- The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence…
- The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and…
- Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants,…
- If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong