Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

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• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

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• The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

  

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• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  

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• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  

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• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

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• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

  

  Tanya Tucker
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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  

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• There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

  

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• The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart.

  

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• I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

  

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• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  

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• We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

  

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• I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

  

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• The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

  

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• My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

  

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• It's how I've lived my life. You show up, work hard, and be humble.

  

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• When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him!

  

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• And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

  

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• The feud with Jerry Lawler was one of the best feuds I ever had. He was the perfect heel and kept his heat. People hated him.

  

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• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  

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• You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

  

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• Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Humble
  • Weak