Browsing Quotes By Stephen Covey, page 2
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The whole key to human influence is first to be influenced, to understand another as he wishes to be understood, and to reflect that understanding emphatically so the he is then open to your own influence.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The missionary is surrounded by a very powerful, cultural, ‘law of Moses,’ as it were; that is, an external set of expectations, rules, and disciplines. These serve as the ancient law of Moses did – as a schoolmaster to bring the missionaries to Christ or to a higher law, so that they transcend the law of Moses and move into the law of Christ, where they are motivated by love, guided by correct principles, directed by the Spirit.
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True love is found in the affirmation of another person’s identity and stewardship, in seeking his or her growth and good, not in interpreting all the other person’s responses in terms of one’s own needs, hungers, or desires.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our calling is to worship the Father in the name of the Son through the Holy Ghost, to pray to the Father in the name of the Son through the Holy Ghost, to serve in the name of the Son by the power of the Holy Ghost.
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Until people see and feel, they will not hear. If they see a model contrary to what they hear – if they feel anger or rejection breathing behind words of love – they will be confused.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most of us perhaps have attended a Priesthood class or a Sunday school class wherein we sensed that celestial principles were being discussed in a telestial spirit, a spirit in which abstract knowledge essentially eclipses love.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good percentage of those who left the Church in this dispensation went out confessing the sins of others – and in the name of God, at that.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Negligence in small things leads both to and from negligence in large things.
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In the narrow sense, activity in the Church is an occasional thing – basically meaning attending meetings and living certain well-defined and minimal laws such as tithing and the Word of Wisdom…It’s fairly easy to attend church meetings and yet be mentally and emotionally elsewhere. As they run from meeting to meeting or interview to interview, such Mormons are often characterized as poor Christians, bad neighbors, and insensitive to pressing human needs.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The adversary would love to have us engaged with him, to fight him on his own territory. He would rather have us be angry toward him than ignore him and be involved in our own work on the Lord’s territory. If he can engage us, he can win. But if we have nothing to do with him, there is no way in which he can win. He is a parasite.
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Often [friend-centeredness] results, finally, in his losing the very thing desired, as he strives to become all things to all people. He ends up becoming nothing to everyone, including himself.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many vacations, vacations lasting too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video-game playing, too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance – this kind of thing gradually wastes a life, wastes a family. It ensures that one’s capacities stay dormant, God-given talents remain undeveloped, the mind and spirit become lethargic, and the heart is unfulfilled. Such a life gives no service, makes no contribution, enjoys no larger vision, and short of repentance and change, it slips down to spiritual decay and death.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t live with an angel unless you change to a like condition. You eventually shape up or ship our. Whatever good there is in one person is appealed to by the angel nature of the other. Most people have a great deal of good within them, and if only others would perceive it and treat them accordingly, this would tend to bring it out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It takes two to fight, and if one partner does not fight back, soon the other’s angry surliness spends itself. When my wife didn’t punish me, the Lord did in His matchless way, and I ended up apologizing to my wife… For the Lord is not only our advocate with the Father; He is our advocate with all of our Father’s other children, unless we become our own advocate and defender.
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Wisdom is a clear sense of increasing idealism and purpose (things as they should be) as well as a sensitive, practical approach to realities (things as they are).
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Intellectual pride is more basic and serious than either social or material pride. We know we can lose our prestige or our possessions. They are external. But when the problem lies in our very thinking and we are unaware of that fact, what then?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that the fastest way to change a person’s behavior is to change his map of or frame of reference by calling him a different name, giving him a different role responsibility, or placing him in a different situation.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you had an inaccurate map of a city, you would be both lost and frustrated. If someone counseled you to try harder and you doubled your speed, you would merely be lost twice as fast. If the person sensed how discouraged you were and counseled you to think positively rather than negatively, you would still be lost but perhaps you wouldn’t care about it as much.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to change the world is to change your head, that is, your thinking, your perceptions.
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Each person sees the world not as it is but as he or she is. When he opens his mouth to describe what he sees, he in effect describes himself, that is, his perception.
That does not mean that there are no facts… But each person’s interpretation of these facts represents his prior experiences, and the facts have no meaning whatsoever apart from his interpretation.Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!