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Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 13

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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

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.

Disappointment, Winning, People

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Impulse Control, Essence, Self Control

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

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

Treats, 7 Habits, Interpersonal Skills

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Collaboration, Individual, Synergy

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

Behavior, Performances, Persons

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

Motivational, Fitness, Taste

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Management, Individual, Chairs

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.121, Mango Media Inc.

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Team, Leader, Weakness

Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

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.

Love You, Sacrifice, Love Is

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Change, Responsibility, Animal

"CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

Motivation, Keys, Important

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.

Writing

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.164, Mango Media Inc.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

Powerful, Lenses, World

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.31, Mango Media Inc.

The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.

Integrity, Passion, World Religions

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

Change, Courage, Inspiration

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Winning, Two, Enemy

Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

Inspiration, Character, Patterns

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Weakness, Lenses, Looks

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Communication, Moving Forward, Character

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.18, Mango Media Inc.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

Sadness, Joy, Keep Moving Forward

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

Commitment, Wells, Ifs

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

Law Of Attraction, Giving, Dichotomy

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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.

Jobs, People, Done

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Life, Motivational, Change

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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

Latin, Mean, Inspire

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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