Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Bodett

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tony Hawk

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Tony Gonzalez

Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

Toni Cade Bambara

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Toni Collette

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Steve Wozniak

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Steve Wozniak

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.

Steve Wozniak

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

Steve Wozniak

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

Steve Wozniak

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

Steve Prefontaine

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

Steve Gleason

My life is not easy, but it's awesome.

Steve Almond

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

Stephen Covey

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Stephen Covey

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Stephen Covey

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Stephen Covey

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Stephen Covey

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

Stephen Covey

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Stephen Covey

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

Stephen Covey

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

Stephen Covey

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

Stephen Covey

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.

Stephen Covey

"If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

Stephen Covey

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Stephen Covey

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

Stephen Covey

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Stephen Covey

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

Stephen Covey

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Stephen Covey

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.