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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Sep 19, 2025
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.
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
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.
But borrowing strength builds weakness.
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
I believe that a life of integrity I 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.
If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Begin with the end in mind.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.