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

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• 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

• Every burden is a blessing.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Strength
  • Blessing
  • Burden

• Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

  

  John Crowley
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Sun
  • Poverty
  • Littles

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• 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