Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Stephen Covey

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• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Proud
  • Equality

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Future
  • Universe
  • Curiosity

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Choose

• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Power
  • War
  • Stop

• Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Stars
  • Just
  • Turn

• My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
  • Death
  • Dad

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Big

• The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Beast

• The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Charity

• My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Friends
  • Humor
  • Depression

• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Team
  • Trust

• I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

  

  Chuck D
  • World
  • Enemy

• Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

  

  David Lloyd
  • Proud
  • Audience
  • Police

• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Life
  • Long
  • She

• The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Party

• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Discipline

• Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Relationship
  • Discipline
  • Foundation