Stephen Covey Quotes

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

I behave in public like I behave in private.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

What is often said in private may not be said in public.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbors should be true to the public.

In public politics as in private life, character is better than brains, and loyalty more valuable than either.

When I talk to young people about entering government, I tell them, “Now think of the worst thing you’ve ever done in your life. Don’t tell me what it is. Now think about having it on the 10 o’clock news.”

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior.

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.