Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

Stephen Covey

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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Time
  • Says
  • Celebs

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Soul

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Speak
  • I Can

• My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Water

• However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Live
  • Man

• To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • More
  • Workers

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Diamonds

• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Best
  • Baseball
  • Homework

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Home
  • Better
  • Walking

• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Why
  • Success

• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Feeling
  • Confidence
  • Retains

• Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.

  

  Socrates
  • Wisdom
  • Feelings
  • Pleasure

• Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

  

  George Henry Lewes
  • Character
  • Circumstances
  • Built

• Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Action
  • Feelings
  • Mood