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Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Integrity in the Moment of Choice
Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach.
Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.
Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004)
We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
What Matters Most : The Power of Living Your Values (2001)
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989)
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989)
THE MOMENT OF CHOICE
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment.
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989)
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989)
It's not enough to have values without vision; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler.
Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989)
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
Values are social norms — they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)