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More Quotes by Stephen Covey
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
