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Stephen R. Covey Quotes

«We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations»
«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»
«Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.»
«Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.»
«Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.»
«People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.»
«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.»
«If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster»
«Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education»
«Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together»

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