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

“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.”

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

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”

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

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

“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

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

“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”

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

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

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

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

“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”

“Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important”

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

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

“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”

“Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

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

“How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”

“The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.”

“Leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”