Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Stephen Covey

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Hell

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Pain
  • Tears
  • Many

• Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Small
  • Problem
  • Dog

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Money
  • Problem

• Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Free
  • Problem
  • Fight

• President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Respect
  • Problem
  • Serious

• I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• Every marathon starts with that first mile. But somewhere around mile 16 or 18 - trust me on this - your feet are killing you, you're not sure you can breathe anymore, your mind is frazzled, your body wracked with pain, and all you want to do is stop.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Mind
  • Stop
  • Pain

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

  

  Maya Angelou
  • History
  • Pain
  • Courage

• Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

  

  Max Lucado
  • God
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

  

  Jill Scott
  • World
  • Pain
  • Deep

• To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Pain

• All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Vision
  • Lovers
  • Endure

• The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Lost

• I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Family
  • Father
  • Stupid

• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Dreams
  • Promised

• Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Common