"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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"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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"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Covey, Stephen R. on imagination
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"As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."

Covey, Stephen R. on limitation   

"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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"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."

Covey, Stephen R. on potential
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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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"You can't live principles you can't understand."

Covey, Stephen R. on principles   

"The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"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."

Covey, Stephen R. on change
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

Covey, Stephen R. on understanding
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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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"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Davis, Bette on impossibility
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"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

Davis, Bette on passion   

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."

Davis, Bette on work   

"To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

Davis, Bette on work   

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

Dickens, Charles on secrets
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"Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity."

Dickens, Charles on business   

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

Dickens, Charles on time
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Dickens, Charles on worth
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"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."

Dickens, Charles on concentration   

"I think the biggest disease this world suffers fromis people feeling unloved."

Diana, Princess of Wales on disease
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"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back."

Diana, Princess of Wales on service
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"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be."

Diana, Princess of Wales on service   

"At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead."

Diana, Princess of Wales on surprises   

"I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."

Diana, Princess of Wales on understanding
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"Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children."

Diana, Princess of Wales on children
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily on art
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on love
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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

Dickinson, Emily on opportunity
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"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

Dickinson, Emily on success
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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