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"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind."

Covey, Stephen R. on techniques
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"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize."

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

Covey, Stephen R. on character
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"Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it."

Covey, Stephen R. on security
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"Accountability breeds response-ability."

Covey, Stephen R. on responsibility
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"Priority is a function of context."

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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."

Covey, Stephen R. on power
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"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately."

Covey, Stephen R. on mistakes
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"The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle."

Covey, Stephen R. on management
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Covey, Stephen R. on management
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"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society."

Covey, Stephen R. on freedom
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

Covey, Stephen R. on understanding
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"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."

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"It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside."

Covey, Stephen R. on vision
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Hill, Napoleon on extra mile
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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."

Hill, Napoleon on environment
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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

Hill, Napoleon on effort
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"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."

Hill, Napoleon on dream
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"The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

Hill, Napoleon on decisions
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."

Covey, Stephen R. on circumstance
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"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. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

Covey, Stephen R. on wisdom
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"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

Covey, Stephen R. on freedom
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