Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

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
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Marriage
  • Cheating
  • Label

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Small

• Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

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

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Person
  • Master
  • Dignity

• I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Success
  • Small
  • New

• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Price

• Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Wrong
  • Often
  • Department

• My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Different
  • Father
  • Strong

• The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • People
  • Writing
  • Money

• It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Education
  • Support
  • Mean

• Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Science

• I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Family
  • Human
  • Values

• Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

  

  George Whyte-Melville
  • Think
  • Future
  • Existence

• I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

  

  Mike Thompson
  • Family
  • Vote

• I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Principles