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

• Mother
• Pride
• Values
• Virtue
• Humility
• Behavior
• Principles
• Submit

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• 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
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Blessed

• I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Love
  • Know
  • Lost

• That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Away

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• I've been your slave Ever since I've been your babe But before I be your dog I'll see you in your grave.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Dog

• 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
  • Life
  • Hand

• Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

  

  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
  • Up
  • Art

• 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
  • World
  • Different

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.

  

  O. J. Brigance
  • Purpose
  • Confidence
  • Challenges

• Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Values
  • Erroneous
  • Material Things

• I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Values

• In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

  

  Chittaranjan Das
  • Country
  • Father
  • Culture

• 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
  • Mother
  • Pride
  • Values