The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
JOHN C. MAXWELLRemember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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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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To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
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Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
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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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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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Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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It’s better to prepare than to repair.
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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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Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
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We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
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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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Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
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To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
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Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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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.
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The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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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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Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.
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If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.
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Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
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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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