Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Stephen Covey

• Emotional
• Identity
• Security
• Strength

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• It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Strength
  • Go
  • Let Go

• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Security
  • Down
  • Walk

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Struggle
  • Strength
  • Where

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Security

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Country
  • Think
  • Security

• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Free

• My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Important
  • Faith

• Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside onself so that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing employers and friends - most of whom thought things were fine.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Emotional

• I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Up

• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• Yoga is a matter of the Spirit and not of the intellect. For just as water will find its way through every obstruction, in order to rise to the level of its source, so does the spirit in man strive upwards ever towards the source whence it came.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Water
  • Yoga

• You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Mind
  • Sex
  • Made

• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Identity
  • Security