Stephen R. Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Be the ball.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Union gives strength.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Houston, we have a problem.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Our intentions create our reality.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Don't dream it be it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
We rob banks.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Happiness is a state of activity.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
I'm king of the world !
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You become what you think about.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Every dog has his day.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.