"You can't talk your way out of a……" — Stephen Covey
"You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!"
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556 Quotes by Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey has 556 quotes on this site.
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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 Behaved Quotes
This quote is filed under Behaved Quotes,
one of 172 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension…
— Steve Ballmer
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
— Brigitte Bardot
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved…
— Jeff Bridges
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed…
— Octavia Butler
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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they…
— Amy Chua
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or…
— Fleur Adcock
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
— Betty Ford
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
— Jamelia
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