It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
ANDY STANLEYLeadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
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The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn’t love a lot.
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Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
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Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.
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You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.
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Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
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Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
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When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
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Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
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I’ve talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don’t really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don’t need a solution. They need a new direction.
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We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
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Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
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You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.
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Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
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