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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."
"Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management.""
"One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves."
"The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires."
"Private victories precede public victories."
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success"
"The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth."
"The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game."
"Seek to understand before you seek to be understood."
"Common sense is not always common practice."
"You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are."
"Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem."
"I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow."
"Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us."
"Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence."
"If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription."
"The only person I know, is the person I want to be"
"We don't invent our missions, we detect them."
"The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world."
"Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one."