Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.

Stephen Covey

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Gay

• In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Will
  • Circumstances

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• Film has always been where my heart is.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Heart
  • Film
  • Where

• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Culture

• In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.

  

  Laura Wade
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Friend
  • Purpose
  • Criticism

• I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Try
  • Down

• There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Great
  • Women
  • Art

• My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Father
  • Potential
  • Philanthropic

• My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• The Amen of nature is always a flower.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Flower

• We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Good
  • Children
  • Business

• It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Great
  • Done
  • Science

• There's no chance of cheering him up, sir. He likes being miserable, so he does, and the bastard will get over it.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Up

• The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Trying
  • Future
  • Success

• Don't tell anyone this, but I have never been to Disneyworld. I don't know if I ever will, but I would like to.

  

  Brad Barkley

• You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Kind