Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

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• I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Business
  • Years
  • Early

• I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Wonder

• If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Athlete

• I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Facts
  • Compromise

• Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

  

  William Shatner
  • Men
  • Jobs
  • Doe

• It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • Musicians
  • Queen
  • Ride

• One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Moments
  • Serious

• A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

  

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  • Woman
  • Cunning

• When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • High
  • Young

• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Purpose
  • Enemy
  • Cutting

• Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

  

  Simon Wiesenthal
  • Decision
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgetting

• If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Law
  • Violence

• He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Believe
  • Nobody
  • Trusted

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trusted