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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.


Stephen R. Covey

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STEPHEN COVEY We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to...
STEPHEN COVEY We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
STEPHEN COVEY Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
STEPHEN COVEY We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if ...
STEPHEN COVEY You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions ...
STEPHEN COVEY Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the p...
STEPHEN COVEY Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degr...
STEPHEN COVEY We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's b...
STEPHEN COVEY Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying tal...
STEPHEN COVEY There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings.
STEPHEN COVEY The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
STEPHEN COVEY The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced b...
STEPHEN COVEY The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident pr...
STEPHEN COVEY We become what we repeatedly do.
STEPHEN COVEY An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportu...
STEPHEN COVEY I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
STEPHEN COVEY Interdependency follows independence.
STEPHEN COVEY Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will...
STEPHEN COVEY In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get ...
STEPHEN COVEY For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is ins...
STEPHEN COVEY When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts...
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