Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

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We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

Stephen R. Covey

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

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Being is seeing in the human dimension.

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There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

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The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

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It is character that communicates most eloquently.

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...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

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Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

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Between stimulus, or what happens to us or has ever happened to us, and our response, lies our power and freedom to choose. In those choices lie our growth and happiness.

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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

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...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profe...

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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

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Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

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