Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Better

• One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Water
  • Pride

• I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Believe

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Society
  • Progress

• Of course China, of course Mexico do not want Donald Trump. They know if he gets in and becomes President of the United States, the days of taking advantage of the United States are over.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Trump

• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • Long
  • Singing

• I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Believe

• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

• In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Mind
  • Laughter

• Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Kinship

• Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

  

  Ba Jin
  • Country
  • Victory
  • Luck

• By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 – the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den – Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

  

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky
  • History
  • Victory
  • Tests

• I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Holiday

• Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Victory
  • Algebra
  • Calculus