"You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life."
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"The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution."
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"Begin with the end in mind."
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"If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster."
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"Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside."
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"We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions."
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"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
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"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."
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"Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw"
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"Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice."
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"What you do has far greater impact than what you say."
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"Beginners are many; finishers are few."
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"Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together."
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"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
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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."
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"Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution."
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"Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others."
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"Leadership is a choice, not a position"
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"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us."
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"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
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