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Motives Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives…
- The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of…
- Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and…
- It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of…
More Motives Quotes
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton
- We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson
- ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler
- We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski
- CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is… — P.J. O'Rourke