Stephen Covey Quotes

702 quotes · Author, Speaker

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Stephen Covey Quotes

All Determined Wise Courageous Confident Philosophical 702 quotes · page 25 of 50

Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

Determined

“Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.”

Thinking Moving Progress

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Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

Confident

“If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.”

Ifs Wells Commitment

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Determined

“He who has a why can deal with any what or how.”

Life Belief Deals

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Philosophical

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

Essence Self Control

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Philosophical

“The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."”

Inspiration Enemy

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Philosophical

“The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.”

Thinking Motivational Keys

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Wise

“How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.”

Motivational Team Humble

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Creative

“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.”

Parent Understanding Teenager

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Courageous

“..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.”

People Vision Essence

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Love

“Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.”

Love Is Love You Sacrifice

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Spiritual

“The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.”

World Spiritual Roots

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Confident

“Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.”

Thinking Jobs Lying

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