Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Different
  • Country
  • Religion

• To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Thought
  • Modern
  • Principles

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Questions
  • Principles

• If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Trust
  • Values
  • Vote

• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Permanent
  • Learners

• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Golf

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Values

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Care

• Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Values
  • Priority

• The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Values
  • Republican

• If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Faith

• Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Values
  • Level
  • Relative

• To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • Responsibility
  • Evil
  • Fight

• I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Service

• It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Value
  • Values
  • Palestinian

• A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Responsibility
  • Hands
  • Humans

• If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Principles
  • Endure