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Where we stand depends on where we sit.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.

If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs - the eternal student syndrome.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

Remember that quick fix is a mirage. Building and repairing relationships takes time.

Don't compromise, when you can synergize.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness or goodness in their character.

When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

My friend, love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.

I've learned that once children gain a sense of real possession, they share very naturally, freely, and spontaneously.

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

If I were emotionally dependent, my sense of worth and security would come from your opinion of me.

It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it.

what is the truth about the inner motivations, character, and ambition of those who hold power?

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.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Sow a thought, reap an action;

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there--shared vision and values.

Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. I

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance,

Only basic goodness gives life to technique. To

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

responsibility - "response-ability" - the ability to choose your response.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he will become as he can and should be.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

Educating the heartis the critical complement to educating the mind.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives on other people.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

One of the most inspirational people I have ever known is Viktor Frankl,

Independent people can get what they want through

The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility.

If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road.

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature:

A lie is any communication with intent to deceive,

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.

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children's good behavior, and, in our eyes, this son simply didn't measure up.

man you might like to take her out. If you were

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right

we're responsible for our own lives.

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.