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"If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values."
"Difference is the beginning of synergy."
"We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions."
"Link yourself to your potential, not to your past."
"The way we see the problem is the problem."
"Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others."
"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."
"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."
"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living."
"The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be."
"When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."
"Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves."
"We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles."
"Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity."
"The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values."
"Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds."
"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment."
"Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions."
"If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy."