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

• Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Believe
  • Powerful
  • Attitude

• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Women
  • Consider
  • Monsters

• What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted President Yanukovych. However, they should have legitimately come to the polls and voted for another head of state instead of staging a coup d'état. And after the coup d'état took place, someone supported it, someone was satisfied with it, while others were not. And those who did not like it were treated from the position of force. And that led to a civil war.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • War
  • President
  • Force

• After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Trauma
  • Trusted

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trusted