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

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

Stephen R. Covey

“We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.”

Stephen R. Covey

“If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.”

Stephen R. Covey

Source: 7 habits Family Collection

“Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.”

Stephen R. Covey

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“we're responsible for our own lives.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.”

Stephen R. Covey

Source: The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

“People are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope… with all of their might.”

Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“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 book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”

Stephen R. Covey

“But borrowing strength builds weakness.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Your attitude determines your altitude”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.”

Stephen R. Covey

Source: Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11 : Thirty Methods of Influence

“Until you live, learn how to live.”

Stephen R. Covey book First Things First

First Things First (1994), Disputed