Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Stephen Covey

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• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Night

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Great
  • Age
  • Soul

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Soul

• What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Soul

• I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Soul

• 'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Space
  • Hand
  • Empathy

• A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

  

  Eileen Caddy
  • High
  • Soul

• Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

  

  Percy Sledge
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Soul

• By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him, you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.

  

  John Newton
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Soul
  • Joy

• When I structured my career, I looked at Muhammad Ali, which is my all-time favorite and an idol of mine, and what he has done for this sport. He was a real-life hero.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • See
  • Innocent

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Way
  • Proud
  • Born

• The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Soul
  • Feels
  • Humans