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.
JOHN C. MAXWELLWe cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
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Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.
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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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When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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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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Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.
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Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
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Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
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A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
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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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It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.
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You add value to people when you value them.
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The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops 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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Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Make personal growth a daily priority.
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You’ll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out.
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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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One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
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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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I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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