Top 58 Who Is Stephen Covey Quotes
#1. what is the truth about the inner motivations, character, and ambition of those who hold power?
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#3. Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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#4. Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
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#5. The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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#6. In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
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#7. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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#8. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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#9. Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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#11. Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
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#12. He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
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#13. Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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#14. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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#15. The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
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#16. You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
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#17. I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.
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#18. 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 profess to believe deeply.
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#19. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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#20. The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'
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#21. Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.
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#22. The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
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#23. One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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#24. People who exercise their freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' [That is, until] they are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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#25. People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
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#26. Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb ...
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#27. Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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#28. Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
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#29. Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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#30. You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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#31. 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 will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
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#32. 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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#33. Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.
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#34. Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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#35. What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
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#36. Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
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#37. I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
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#38. The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.
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#39. The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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#40. You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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#41. We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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#42. The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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#43. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
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#44. It simply makes no difference how good the rhetoric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.
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#45. The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be
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#47. I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.
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#48. True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
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#50. I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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#51. Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.
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#52. 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, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.
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#53. The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
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#54. Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
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#56. We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.
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#57. Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
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