Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Stephen Covey

• Integrity
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• For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Past
  • Beauty
  • White

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Great
  • English

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• I love apple juice.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Love
  • Apple
  • Juice

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • God
  • Best

• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • School
  • Me
  • Sleep

• It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Overcome
  • Mental Illness

• I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Secrets

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Wise

• There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • May
  • Dream

• You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Opportunity

• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Fitness

• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you have. Do not wait another day. Lay your hours and intellect, your heart and passion, upon the altar of self-transformation and collective awakening. Begin now: pray, believe, trust and act.

  

  Ann Mortifee
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Pray

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • May
  • Truth
  • Hope

• Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Integrity
  • Relationships
  • Assuming