Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.

Stephen Covey

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Different
  • Man

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Romantic
  • Conversation

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

  J Mascis
  • Different
  • New
  • Everything

• Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Experience
  • Day
  • New

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Learn
  • Nothing
  • Arrogant

• I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Want

• To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Future
  • Road

• I understand your anger and outrage, I understand your pain. And yet in the self-interest of Gujarat, and to ensure that we don’t jeopardize the future of Gujarat, that Gujarat doesn’t get a blot on its face or carry a stigma connected with these times all the 5 crore Gujaratis need to keep calm and exercise self-restraint.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Future
  • Pain
  • Exercise

• Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Children
  • May
  • Present

• I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Death
  • Design

• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Thinking
  • Optimistic

• As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Job
  • Mom

• I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Time
  • Help
  • Serious

• The revolution begins at home.

  

  Cherrie Moraga
  • Home
  • Revolution
  • Begins

• The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Fashion
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• People either leave or they stay.

  

  Mark Thomas
  • People

• I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Glory