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"Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar."
"Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust."
"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."
"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."
"Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice."
"I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home."
"The key to success is dedication to life-long learning."
"It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know."
"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually."
"Seek to understand rather than be understood."
"Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment)."
"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them."
"Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!"
"Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master."
"Life is a mission, not a career."
"The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important."
"Treat them all the same by treating them differently."
"What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them."
"Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air."
"Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors."