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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.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

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.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

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.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.