Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
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Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they're having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Courage is always rewarded.
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One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.
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Courage is action, not talk.
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A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
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Freedom is a system based on courage.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.
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The only good Doe is a dead Doe
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It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
