Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

Stephen Covey

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• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

  

  Kanye West
  • Voice
  • Down
  • Generation

• I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Courage
  • Dreams
  • Inspire

• I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mom
  • Care
  • Voice

• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Winning
  • Voice
  • Blue

• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Story
  • Voice
  • Find

• I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Know
  • Band
  • Never

• You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Voice
  • Talk

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Race

• I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Lake

• I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Voice

• Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Pain
  • Musician
  • Painter

• I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Voice
  • Differences
  • Inspire