“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.”

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

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.

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

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.

Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

The first person you lead is you.

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.

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.

How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

I’m living the dream. I’ve got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I’ve got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I’ve always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I’m in my car, that’s what I listen to.

I’m Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

I’m a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol’ steel machine to do the most that it’s capable of doing.

Though she be little she had the heart to dream big, by the pocketful.

Everybody knows we’re big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It’s impossible for us to separate the songs we’re writing from what’s going on in the world.