“The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.”

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.

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

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.

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.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

We are put in situations to build our character, not destroy us.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I attract a crowd, not because I’m an extrovert or I’m over the top or I’m oozing with charisma. It’s because I care.

I’m irrational about all things creative and I’m always late!

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

It doesn’t matter how cool you are if your heart is busted.