Stephen Covey Quotes

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself... The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.

I never think I have to prove something.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.

I have nothing to prove to anybody.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.

I am confident about who I am as a person, my character, and as a human being.

You've gotta stay true to yourself, stay who you are.

My lesson would be to not sell yourself to anybody else and stay true to yourself.

I have nothing to prove to anyone.