Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Stephen Covey

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• The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Law
  • Marriage

• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • War
  • Destruction
  • Murder

• Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.

  

  Saadi
  • Quality
  • Greatness
  • Obedience

• The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Fear
  • Joy

• Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

  

  Aristotle
  • Freedom
  • Rules
  • Obedience

• If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dreams
  • Obedience
  • Spirits

• All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Humanity
  • Obedience
  • Comprised

• Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love Is
  • Obedience
  • Tyrannical

• For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Support
  • Politics
  • Obedience

• All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Crime
  • Extraordinary

• ‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Work
  • House
  • Heaven

• Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Freedom
  • Obedience
  • Energies

• People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Fighting
  • Doubt
  • Authority

• Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Demand
  • Obedience
  • Team Player

• That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

  

  Andrew van der Bijl
  • Mind
  • Excitement
  • Obedience

• Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.

  

  Athos M. Amorim
  • Life
  • Will
  • Obedience

• What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Strong
  • Ability
  • Conviction

• Love is the foundation of all obedience.

  

  Alexander MacLaren
  • Love
  • Foundation
  • Obedience

• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  

  Isambard K. Brunel
  • Progress
  • Bridge
  • Conditions

• I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long

• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writer
  • Punctuation
  • Neglects

• I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Soul
  • Heaven
  • Satisfy

• Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Obedience