The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Begin with the end in mind.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Leadership is a choice, not a position
A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
