"The nature of life is to be a……" — Stephen Covey
"The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing."
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556 Quotes by Stephen Covey
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I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with…
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the…
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will…
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not…
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
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Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we…
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The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the…
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More Contrast Quotes
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which…
— Maurice Baring
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
— Amy Carmichael
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
— John O'Donohue
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and…
— G. Stanley Hall
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The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being…
— Carol Bellamy
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical…
— Frances M. Young
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
— Carl Jung
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