Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
Jack Gleeson -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway -
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
Salman Rushdie -
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior -
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson -
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
Orison Swett Marden -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza -
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney -
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
Lev Vygotsky -
He was feeling things out at the beginning of training camp and as things went on, you really saw the ability for him to play the game at this level.
Luke Richardson
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde -
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
Oscar Wilde -
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.
Benito Juarez -
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
Neve Campbell -
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold -
Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.
Larry Wilmore -
Please, sir, I want some more.
Charles Dickens -
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Stephen Covey