Stephen Covey Short Quotes

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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

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Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

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Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

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You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

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We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

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In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

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To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

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Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

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Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment.

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The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

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