Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Stephen Covey

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• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Lost
  • Memory

• I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Fears

• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Tradition

• Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Bad
  • Existence
  • Fantasy

• In the face of a rapidly changing world, the people of our beloved country have once again demonstrated a commitment to hard work and courage. It is now evident that everything that occurs beyond our borders can have a profound impact upon how we live, the problems with which we have to grapple and the quality of life, which our people will enjoy.

  

  Denzil Douglas
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Limitation

• I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Borders
  • Declare

• The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

  

  William Feather
  • People
  • Borders
  • Superiority

• All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • God
  • Soul
  • Separation

• The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Different
  • Universe
  • Firsts

• Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sleep
  • Land
  • Borders

• Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Giving
  • Limitation

• I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Trying
  • Privacy
  • Limitation

• The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Borders
  • Sun Shines

• ... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Limitation
  • Bruised

• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Thinking
  • Flower
  • Limitation

• I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after reporting the crime. But in this instance, a Muslim, it's always terrorism. So it's always a direct attack towards Muslims, who are American citizens, and as well as other individuals who are here who believe in their faith. And we find that we are now in a position again of trying to protect ourselves, and, again, in some instances, causing people to become more sequestered in their day-to-day lives.

  

  Daayiee Abdullah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Article 11 of the NPT states that if we are threatened, we can act in secret.

  

  Ali Larijani
  • Secret
  • Act
  • Threatened

• I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

  

  Gerry Schwartz
  • Water
  • inspirational
  • Independence

• None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

  

  Ernest Renan

• We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Borders
  • Limitation