Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Stephen Covey

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• Feelings
• Independent
• Discipline
• Integrity
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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Words
  • Jesus

• You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Soul
  • Poor
  • Solo

• I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Up
  • Two
  • Looking

• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Difficult

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Animal

• When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Knowledge

• Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

  

  Lloyd Cutler
  • Important

• I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

  

  Joe Bob Briggs

• I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

  

  Jens Voigt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Discipline

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Writing
  • Name
  • Point

• People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

  

  Alan Kay
  • People
  • Serious

• Auditions are so much fun. A lot of people dread auditions; they think they have to do it in order to get the job. I don't really mind if I don't get the job, as long as I get to do something interesting in the audition. It makes me feel more creative as a person.

  

  Chris Geere
  • People
  • Long
  • Mind

• In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Player
  • Golf

• I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

  

  Kelly Brook
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Independent

• If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Feelings
  • Independent