Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Stephen Covey

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Girl

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Permanent
  • Learners

• Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Conservatism

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Nature
  • Action
  • Body

• As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Unique

• It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Nature

• And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Nature
  • City
  • Sea

• Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Nature
  • Cat

• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Ashamed
  • Clinging

• Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Health

• Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Think
  • Position

• My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Want
  • Parents
  • Education

• I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Nature
  • Humans
  • Deals