Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
BILL HYBELSPersonally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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