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| Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Public behavior is merely private character writ large. | | Uncategorized | |
| Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Seek first to understand and then to be understood. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. | | Uncategorized | |
| The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The way we see the problem is the problem | | Problems | |
| There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution | | Uncategorized | |
| There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. | | Uncategorized | |
| To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind. | | Uncategorized | |
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| 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 | | Choice | |
| We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations | | Uncategorized | |
