The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make Quotes

“The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“The world is a book and those who stay at home read only a page.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Only date people who respect your standards and make you a better person when you’re with them. Consider the message of the movie A Walk to Remember. Landon Carter is the reckless leader who is skating through high school on his good looks and bravado. He and his popular friends at Beaufort High publicly ridicule everyone who doesn’t fit in, including the unfashionable Jamie Sullivan, who wears the same sweater day after day and gives free tutoring lessons to struggling students. By accident, events thrust Landon into Jamie’s world and he can’t help but notice that Jamie’s different. She doesn’t care about conforming and fitting in with the popular kids. Landon’s amazed at how sure of herself she seems and asks, “Don’t you care what people think about you?” As he spends more time with her, he realizes she has more freedom than he does because she isn’t controlled by the opinions of others, as he is. Soon, despite their intentions not to, they have fallen in love and Landon has to choose between his status at Beaufort...and Jamie. “This girl’s changed you,” his best friend yells, “and you don’t even know it.” Landon admits, “She has faith in me. She wants me to be better.” He chooses her. After high school graduation, Jamie reveals to Landon that she’s dying of leukemia. During her final months, Landon does all he can to make her dreams come true, including marrying her in the same church her mother and father were married in. They spend a wonderful summer together, truly in love. Despite Jamie’s dream for a miracle, she dies. Heartbroken, but inspired by Jamie’s belief in him, Landon works hard to go to medical school. But he laments to her father that he couldn’t fulfill her last desire, to see a miracle. Jamie’s father assures him that Jamie did see a miracle before she died, for someone’s heart had truly changed. And it was his. Now that’s a movie to remember! Never apologize for having high standards and don’t ever lower your standards to please someone else.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“In the world of dating, everyone seems to fall into one of the following six camps. Sometimes they straddle two. Pick which camp you’re mostly in. Camp I Wish: You don’t date and you wish you did. Camp Who Cares?: You don’t date and you really don’t care. Camp This Rocks!: You really enjoy dating and you wonder why everyone else doesn’t. Camp Help!: You’re stuck in a bad dating relationship you can’t get out of. Camp Never Again: You just had your heart broken and don’t want to start dating again. Camp Hanging Out: You don’t really date, you just sort of hang out. You see dating as an old-fashioned ritual. Camp Curious: You’re too young to date, but you’re really curious about it.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Albert Einstein, considered the most influential person of the 20th century, was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. His parents thought he was retarded. He spoke haltingly until age nine. He was advised by a teacher to drop out of grade school: “You’ll never amount to anything, Einstein.” Isaac Newton, the scientist who invented modern-day physics, did poorly in math. Patricia Polacco, a prolific children’s author and illustrator, didn’t learn to read until she was 14. Henry Ford, who developed the famous Model-T car and started Ford Motor Company, barely made it through high school. Lucille Ball, famous comedian and star of I Love Lucy, was once dismissed from drama school for being too quiet and shy. Pablo Picasso, one of the great artists of all time, was pulled out of school at age 10 because he was doing so poorly. A tutor hired by Pablo’s father gave up on Pablo. Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the world’s great composers. His music teacher once said of him, “As a composer, he is hopeless.” Wernher von Braun, the world-renowned mathematician, flunked ninth-grade algebra. Agatha Christie, the world’s best-known mystery writer and all-time bestselling author other than William Shakespeare of any genre, struggled to learn to read because of dyslexia. Winston Churchill, famous English prime minister, failed the sixth grade.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Whenever you have a job to do ask yourself two questions. If not now, when? If not by me, by whom?”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“If you’re planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: “I’m looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“• “I go running. It gives me a better perspective on my problems and helps me find solutions.” • “I allow myself one hour to feel sorry for myself and I cry.” • “I take a bath, read my journal, and sleep.” • “I play ball.” • “I lift weights to release the endorphins.” • “Helping others helps you forget about your own problems.” • “I just get out of the house.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“About a third of the way through the course, one of the runners fell. The crowd gasped. But, amazingly, with utter spontaneity, the rest of the runners stopped in their tracks. They stopped and looked back at the one who had fallen. One by one they turned around and slowly made their way back to help the fallen runner. They pulled him to his feet and the race continued with everyone running arm in arm to the finish line. They all finished the race together. All of those runners could see themselves in the one who fell.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“For a moment, imagine the person you hope to marry. What do they look like? Are they funny, intelligent, kind? How do you hope they are living their life right now? Would it bother you if you knew they were hooking up each weekend or had five, ten, or fifteen different partners over the past several years? Or would it make you smile if you knew they were holding out for you? Why not live your life as you would want them to live theirs? Wait for the relationship.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Remember, very few of us wind up marrying the people we date in high school. So even though you may be convinced your current boyfriend or girlfriend is the one, they most likely aren’t.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“When you’re choosing someone to date, what’s the first thing you notice about them? Their personality? Right—let’s get real. The first thing you go for is their looks. You can’t help it. Being attracted to someone is where it all starts, but there is so much more to a person than looks.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, “Isn’t that what I’m doing when I make an enemy a friend?”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“one 2 x 4 beam can support 607 pounds, but two 2 x 4s nailed together can support not just 1,214 pounds (which is what you’d expect), but a whopping 4,878 pounds! So it is with us. We can do so much more together than we can alone.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“please listen to me: There is someone out there who loves you. Please hold on for dear life. Things are never as dark as they seem. Talk with someone immediately and let them know how you’re feeling, in the same way you’d talk to them if you had a terrible flu. “I’m feeling really sick. Can you help me?”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“A boy I know named Michael, the oldest often children, came home one night intoxicated with E. When he saw the family’s pet Labrador in the kitchen he strangled it to death, convinced that it was the devil. The dog bit him and there was blood all over the kitchen. The siblings who ran in to watch the aftermath of the scene were traumatized. Michael is now in drug rehab recovering from addiction.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“I always just hoped that, that I’d meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope that the look of me didn’t make her physically sick, then pop the question and ... um ... settle down and be happy.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover’s dream?, or are you really as beautiful us you seem?”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

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― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“Pay now and play later or play now and pay later.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

“The other day I saw my girl walking with some other man They were walking and giggling and having a time And I saw she was holding his hand! I stood back and spied, my eyes filled with tears As I watched this foul display Some overly cheerful bleep with legs Was taking my baby away! As I spied over Dumpsters with feelings of hate I saw them in a close embrace! Now I’m broken-hearted ‘Cause before they parted, I saw her kiss his face. That ended my garbage-can espionage I thought I had seen quite enough I decided to confront that devilish girl Who I had once called my true love. So I typed up an e-mail to that wicked female And gave her a piece of my mind. But I won’t say what I said, in case there’s kids present But I will say my words were unkind. I said it was the end, and right when I clicked send I heard my telephone ring. I picked up the receiver and couldn’t believe her It was my little ex...thing. She said “Sorry babe that I haven’t seen you all day But my older brother’s in town! Did I ever tell you that he is a boxer And one of the biggest around?! “He’d like to meet you but he’s quite protective So behave whatever you do, I’ll just check my e-mail and then we’ll come by And...oh look! Here’s an e-mail from you.”
― Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens