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Stephen Covey

30Life Quotes


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Stephen Covey

Stephen R. Covey is the author of the

best-selling book, The Seven Habits ofHighly Effective People. Other bookshe has written include First Things First,Principle-Centered Leadership, andThe Seven Habits of Highly EffectiveFamilies. In 2004, Covey released The8th Habit. In 2008, Covey released The

Leader In Me

How Schools andParents Around the World Are InspiringGreatness, One Child at a Time. He iscurrently a professor at the Jon M.Huntsman School of Business at UtahState University. Here are 30 LifeQuotes collected and learned FromStephen R. Covey.


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Paradigms are powerful because they create

the lens through which we see the world.


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Each of us tends to think we see things as

they are, that we are objective. But this is not

the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as

we areor as we are conditioned to see it.


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Dont argue for other peoples weaknesses. Dont

argue for your own. When you make a mistake,

admit it, correct it, and learn from itimmediately.


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Every human has four endowments- self awareness,

conscience, independent will and creative imagination.

These give us the ultimate human freedom

The power to choose, to respond, to change.


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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has

happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.


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"I am not a product of my circumstances.

I am a product of my decisions."


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Between stimulus and response,

one has the freedom to choose.


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Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns,

they constantly, daily, express our character.


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If youre proactive, you dont have to wait for circumstances

or other people to create perspective expanding experiences.

You can consciously create your own.


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Live out of your imagination, not your history.


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Begin with the end in mind.


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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the

fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we

want now for what we want eventually.


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"As long as you think the problem is outthere, that very thought is the problem"


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"Words are like eggs dropped from great heights.

You could no more call them back then ignore themess they left when they fell."


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Many people seem to think that success in one area can

compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?

True effectiveness requires balance.


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Without involvement, there is no commitment.

Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

No involvement, no commitment.


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Management works in the system.

Leadership works on the system.


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Effective people are not problem-minded;

theyre opportunity minded.

They feed opportunities and starve problems.

"M t f d t h ti h t i t


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"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent

and not enough time on what is important."

Eff ti l d hi i tti fi t thi fi t


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Effective leadership is putting first things first.

Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

M t i ffi i i li bi th l dd f


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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of

success; leadership determines whether the ladder

is leaning against the right wall.

" t l d t t d i ll t t l


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"...to learn and not to do is really not to learn.

To know and not to do is really not to know."

Th i thi i t k th i thi


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The main thing is to keep the main thing

the main thing.

Th k i t t i iti h t'


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The key is not to prioritize what's on your

schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to


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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to

look at our interaction with other people, because

our relationships with others are fundamentally a

reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

We are the creative force of our life and through our own


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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own

decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to

do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.


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"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential

ingredient in effective communication. It's the

foundational principle that holds all relationships."

"How different our lives are when we really know


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How different our lives are when we really know

what is deeply important to us, and keeping that

picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to

be and to do what really matters most."

"I think the most significant work we'll do in


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"I think the most significant work we'll do in

our whole life, in our whole world is donewithin the four walls of our home."

"Live love laugh leave a legacy "


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Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.


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Thank You Very Much

Sompong Yusoontorn

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

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