More important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.
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Stephen R. CoveyFirst Things First (1994)
About Stephen R. Covey
American educator and author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. (1932-2012)
More from Stephen R. Covey
- The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.The 7 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 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Habit 5
- Begin with the end in mind.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Habit 2
More quotes on purpose
- Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Seneca
- When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.Seneca
- Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.Marcus Aurelius
- Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.Marcus Aurelius
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.Epictetus
- Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
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