Stephen Covey Quotes

Everything you touch touches you.

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

Everything is a reaction.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

You are the world and the world is you.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.