Ipromised my self that i will never be in pains but it's only in pains that i realised that i wasn't the creator of my self.


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There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is ca...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that pic...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Accountability breeds response-ability.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Win win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolated techniques, they won'...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even g...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Joy is in the ears that hear, not the mouth that speaks.
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, ...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psycholog...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourse...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the f...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reaso...
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim u...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living th...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens it...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories a...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of thems...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
STEPHEN R. COVEY
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mist...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - my...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a cha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First<...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.’ He turned to the High King and said, ‘The hurt ...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD