Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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"Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"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."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,"

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein"

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

"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, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done."

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change