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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.

John C. Maxwell

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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Ability Better Direction Failure Learning Mistake
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.
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Focus Goal Growth Hit Inspirational Motivational 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
To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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Character Deep Head Heart Leadership
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
Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.
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Dreams Obstacle Path Struggle Yourself
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
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Greatness Patience Wait Yourself
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.
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Better Growth Learning Mistake Pay Price Time Wrong Yourself
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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Accomplishment Attachment Endurance Faith Hard Work Patience Price Sacrifice Worth
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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Achievement Consistency Discipline Greatness Leadership Repeat Slow Time
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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Deal Different Mindset People Problem Success
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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Character Limitation Rise Stop Success Yourself
Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
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God Limitation Negative Potential Thinking
Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
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Hate Practice Yourself
It’s said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others’s successes.
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Learning Mistake Person Success Wisdom
You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Attitude Smart 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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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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