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Stephen R. Covey Quote of the Day

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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Understanding Listening

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

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.
- Dale Carnegie

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie