Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

Stephen Covey

• Mind
• Heart
• Mistake
• Judgment
• Intention
• Forgiving

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• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Mistake