Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Done
  • Power
  • Dream

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • Romantic
  • Belong

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Work
  • War
  • Peace

• Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Sun

• But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.

  

  Carrie Underwood

• As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.

  

  Jason Boyd

• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Character

• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

  

  Brian McKnight

• The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Believe
  • Family
  • School

• A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Honesty
  • Humility
  • Sarcastic

• To a few alarmed observers it seemed as though Wall Street were by way of devouring all the money of the entire world. However, in accordance with the cultural practice, as the summer passed, the sound and responsible spokesmen decried not the increase in brokers' loans, but those who insisted on attaching significance to this trend.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • World
  • Money
  • Practice

• O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole. Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs Hearts of patience to unravel this, - the worth of common deeds.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Life
  • World
  • Soul

• Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

  

  Matthew Goode
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Soul

• What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

  

  Stephen Covey
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