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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

John C. Maxwell

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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Action Blame Failure Improvement Learning Mistake People Potential Problem Responsibility Simplicity Yourself
Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.
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Inspirational Loud Motivational Talk Walk Word Work Yourself
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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Decision God Life Money Place Yourself
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
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Demand Goodness Job Leadership Person Thinking
Make personal growth a daily priority.
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Growth Improvement One Liner Priority Self Love
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Commitment Confidence Leadership
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
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
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself
A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
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Action Dreams Habit Reality Result Yourself
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.
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Change Creation Difference Inspirational Journey Live Ourselves Path Yourself
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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Believe Best Myself People See Thinking Wisdom
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
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
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God Live Need People Yourself
Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
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Achievement Knowledge Motivational Persistence Problem Pursue Yourself

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

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