Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

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• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Alone

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fingers
  • DNA
  • Chemical

• Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.

  

  Victor Hugo

• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Terms
  • MAle
  • Perfectly

• Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Music
  • Long
  • Hope

• I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

  

  Mark Ronson

• Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Player
  • Basketball

• My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • True
  • Song
  • Car

• Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Stupid

• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Fall
  • Dance
  • Professional

• Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.

  

  David Leitch
  • Good
  • Dance
  • Explore

• Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Car
  • Body
  • Cellphone

• Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

  

  Amelia B. Edwards
  • Achievement
  • Civilization
  • Archeology

• I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Long
  • Age
  • Lucky

• When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Integrity
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  • Fundamentals