Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."
Following Emerson's guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and other wisdom by Stephen R. Covey.
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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
~ Stephen Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren’t important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II…Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? … Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven’t really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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The key is not to prioritize your schedule but to schedule your priorities.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, “How do you maintain that serenity and peace?” He replied, “I never leave my place of meditation.” He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes
from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
~ Stephen Covey Quotes from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey : Quadrant II
Stephen Covey : Be Proactive
Stephen Covey : Commitments
Stephen Covey : Funerals
Stephen Covey : Begin with the End in Mind
Stephen Covey : Learn, Commit & Do
Stephen Covey : 7th Habit
Stephen Covey : Renewal
Stephen Covey : Meditation
Stephen Covey : Write
Stephen Covey : Synergy
Stephen Covey : Weekly Roles & Goals
Stephen Covey : Public & Private Victories
Stephen Covey : Emotional Bank Deposits
Stephen Covey : “No.”
Stephen Covey : Schedule Keys
Stephen Covey : Efficiency & Effectiveness
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