Best Quotes by Stephen Covey (Top 10)
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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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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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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