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.

Stephen Covey

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• We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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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.

  

  Sal Albanese
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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.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
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• I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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  • Like
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• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
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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.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Courage
  • Humility

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
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  • Team

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Start

• Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• I have the courage of my convictions.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
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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.

  

  Bennet Omalu
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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• Courage is always rewarded.

  

  Kenny Loggins
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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.

  

  Elliott Abrams
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• Courage is action, not talk.

  

  Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band
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• A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

  

  Jacques Maritain
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• So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Work
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• Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Respect
  • Doubt
  • Belief

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Courage
  • Emotion
  • Mood