Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Quotes to Explore
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
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The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
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As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.
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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.
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People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn.
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The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.
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Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
