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Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

John C. Maxwell

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person’s heart before you ask him for a hand.
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Hands Head Heart Leadership Person Yourself
Your goal as a leader isn’t to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
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Goal Leadership Leaving People
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
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Achievement Attitude Himself Man Positive Quality Success
Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
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Consistency Discipline Growth Key Motivational Opportunity Talent Yourself
It’s said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others’s successes.
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Learning Mistake Person Success Wisdom
It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
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Condition Decision Determination Life Ourselves Quality
You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Attitude Smart Yourself
So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.
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Hard Thinking Time Yourself
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
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Correct Leadership Life Mistake Recognition Success Work
You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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Choice Life Preparation Repair Yourself
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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Influence Investment Leadership People Start Time Yourself
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
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Change Failure Need Planning Vision Yourself
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Deep Future Hope Present
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
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Destruction People Start Vision
If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.
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Influence Inspirational Learning Motivational People Positive Thinking Understand Way
The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.
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Character Oneself True

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