Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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He strikes me as being very disciplined, ... I thought he clearly was one that really gives strong preference for what the law and precedent is. I mean, he talked about that a lot, that he's very methodical and restrained in that regard.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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Treat everyone how you want to be treated.
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Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?
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... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
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We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
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In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
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And where should mankind be without trees?
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I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.
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Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
