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.
JOHN C. MAXWELLThe greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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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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Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
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If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
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To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.
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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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You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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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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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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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.
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People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.
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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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You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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