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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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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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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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
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Moral courage ... is always defined by the state as treason. ... It is the courage to act and speak the truth. Thompson had it. Daniel Ellsburg had it. Malcolm X had it. Martin Luther King had it. What those in authority once said about them they say today about Snowden.
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The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.
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My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
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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.
