Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

Stephen Covey

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• Sacrifice
• Appreciate
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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Life
  • Feelings

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• No fruit. No veggie.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Fruit

• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Like

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Up
  • Care

• I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Action

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Action
  • Kind
  • President

• I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Political
  • Feelings
  • Answer

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Take

• Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Action
  • Courage

• Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Action
  • Justice

• Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

  

  Pericles
  • People
  • Action

• Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • World
  • Mother
  • Action

• To get health insurance, you give up your dignity - that's what I thought being an actor was. So when 'GLOW' came along, I was shaking reading it because I hadn't really allowed myself to dream of a show like this.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Reading

• I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!'

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Want
  • Company
  • Employees

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Action
  • Feelings
  • Sacrifice