Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
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Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
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To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
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The readiness to sacrifice one's personal work and, if necessary, even one's life for others shows its most highly developed form in the Aryan race. The greatness of the Aryan is not based on his intellectual powers; but rather on his willingness to devote all his faculties to the service of his community.
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Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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I do not care whether she loves me or not. I just need her by my side forever, I love her and will always love despite anything.
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Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
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I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I hear the theme from 'Psycho' every time I take a shower. I lock the door.
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A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
