Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

Stephen Covey

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• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • World
  • Anxiety

• Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Want
  • Challenges

• Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Real
  • Obstacles
  • Imaginary

• Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Long
  • Journey
  • Obstacles

• It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Good
  • Women
  • Leadership

• Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God-trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Whatever the attitude, so is the response.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Attitude
  • Response

• As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Peace
  • Search
  • Decisions

• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Help
  • Player
  • Helping

• Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Present

• Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Challenges
  • Search
  • Force

• The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Challenge
  • Air

• When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Challenge

• Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Fighting
  • Military
  • Obstacles

• My response to them is that?s looking backwards.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Response
  • Backwards

• Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Helping

• We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Challenges

• We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Revolution
  • Christ
  • Poor

• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  

  George Eliot
  • Believe
  • Joy
  • Imagination

• Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Experience
  • Perfect

• Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Helping
  • Challenges
  • Realizing