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.'
M. Stanton Evans -
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 -
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 -
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. Pritzker
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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 -
I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
Sam Worthington -
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 -
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 -
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
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
Brian Jacques -
I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.
Denis O'Hare -
Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.
Phil Robertson -
'Star Wars' is so much bigger than any single person involved, so you feel like you want to do that justice and also feel like you want to do justice to that little girl inside me that never saw anyone who looked like her, that person who's starving for representation - it's a lot.
Kelly Marie Tran -
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan -
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.
Confucius -
It is the duty of all troops and police in my command to adopt the severest measures. Every act of violence committed by partisans must be punished immediately. Reports submitted must also give details of countermeasures taken. Wherever there is evidence of a considerable number of partisan groups a proportion of the male population of the area will be arrested, and in the event of an act of violence being committed these men will be shot.
Albert Kesselring -
The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.
Edmund Landau -
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