Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know...
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
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Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.
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The traditional textbook will always have a place on the shelf just as it has for hundreds of years. This product is about choice for students, providing them a less expensive price.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
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Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
