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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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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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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Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.
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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
