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Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 18

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Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people

Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people

People, Independence, Marketing

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Success, Teamwork, Greatness

Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

Relationship, Duplicity, Important

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

Emotion, Tension, Disharmony

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Life, Leadership, Insperational

Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Motivational, 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.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Imagination, Goal, Vision

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Perception, Lenses, Looks

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

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

Leadership, Real, Understanding

Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.

Life, Technique, Foundation

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.163, Mango Media Inc.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

Self, Effectiveness, Patterns

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.74, Mango Media Inc.

We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.

Cutting, Busy, Realising

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

Self, People, Empowering

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

Lying, Imagination, Vision

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

Believe, Personal Development, 7 Habits

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.379, Mango Media Inc.

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.

Accomplish, Ability

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Perspective, World, Behavior

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.77, Mango Media Inc.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

Memories, Past, Ties

Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

Climbing, Goal, Ladders

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

Perspective, Understanding, Balance

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

Fun, Pursuit Of Happiness, Self

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

Air, Giving, Empathy

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Motivational, Business, Effectiveness

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Communication, Character, Skills

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a 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.

Inspirational, Attitude, Self

Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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