“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.”

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.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

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.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

God doesn’t move until we move first.

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

Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Make personal growth a daily priority.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

When my dad played me ‘Walking Man,’ I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn’t really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they’re definitely buried in there.

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.