“To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.”

Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.

Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

People join organizations, they leave managers.

If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

All children in some form or another have genius; the trick is to bring it out in them.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.