The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You can’t live principals you can’t understand.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
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’.
Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
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.
People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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