Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

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• I always have my own attitude towards everything in life.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Life
  • Always
  • Attitude

• Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • True
  • Sometimes

• The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Born

• I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Pedestal

• I have miles to go before I sleep...

  

  Robert Frost
  • Sleep
  • Miles

• The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Children
  • Desires

• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

  

  Sophocles
  • Pain
  • Sleep
  • King

• Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Community
  • Church
  • Centre

• How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Spirit

• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Limit
  • Self-restraint
  • Self-Indulgence

• Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Heroism

• The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Teaching

• In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.

  

  Confucius
  • Wisdom
  • Treat
  • Affection

• I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.

  

  Jonathan Silverman
  • Marriage
  • Potential
  • Judgments

• The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Truth
  • Depends
  • Accumulation

• Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Working
  • Don't Want

• What you see often depends on what you are looking for.

  

  Stephen Covey
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