Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

Stephen Covey

• Mind
• Heart
• Leadership
• Discipline
• Priorities

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• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

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• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

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• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  

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• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

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• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

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• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

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• We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

  

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• The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

  

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• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

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• Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.

  

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• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

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• It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

  

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• The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.

  

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• Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.

  

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• I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

  

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• I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.

  

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• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  

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• Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

  

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• We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

  

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• What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.

  

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• Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Leadership