Top Quotes of Stephen Covey
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Start with the end in mind.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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Leadership Quotes of Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Life Quotes of Stephen Covey
There are three constants in life – change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities, organize your life around them.
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Stephen Covey Quote on Trust
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Inspirational Quotes of Stephen Covey
Make time for planning; Wars are won in the general’s tent.
Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey
Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.
Stephen Covey
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
Strength lies in differences not in similarities.
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Listen with your eyes for feelings.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Be a light not a judge. Be a model not a choice. be part of the solution not part of the problem.
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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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The only thing that endures over time is the Law of the Farm. You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water it if you expect to reap the harvest.
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A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
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Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom. The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else trie to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits because they are consistent. Often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.
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What you do has greater impact than what you say.
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