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Sense Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
- There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to…
- Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
- The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your…
- 'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for…
- The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you…
- In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside…
- Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense…
- Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am…
- The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most…
- Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no…
- Common sense is not always common practice.
- The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
- If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We…
- To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people…
- Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
- The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
- It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself…
- As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself…
- The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our…
- Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,…
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden