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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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Success is predictable.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
A simple I love you means more than money.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Our love is here to stay.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
The ready back gets all the loads.
You complete me.
Mr. Christian !
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.