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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Stephen R. Covey.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I honor all people and cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
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