Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
JOHN C. MAXWELLYou’ll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out.
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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
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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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The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.
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We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
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Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
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Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
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To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
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Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
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Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
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You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.
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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
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People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
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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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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.
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When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
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Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.
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If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
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