Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.
Stephen Covey
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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Randy Harrison
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung
I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
Yami Gautam
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
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But now I see I was not plucked for naught,And after in life's vaseOf glass set while I might survive,But by a kind hand broughtAliveTo a strange place.
Henry David Thoreau
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Chris Terrio
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
Nile Rodgers
Chic
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
James Gleick
That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.
Andy Grammer
Until my early teens, I lived with my mother in New York, and I spent a lot of time in the company of her friends, mostly artists and designers, such as Andy Warhol, Ross Bleckner and Francesco Clemente, none of whom had kids, so I was like their shared child.
Jade Jagger
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Yayoi Kusama
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
Alice McDermott
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
Audrey Hepburn
It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and security concerns.
William Ramsay
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.
Stephen Covey
