People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
JOHN C. MAXWELLLeaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
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It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
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Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.
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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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It’s said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others’s successes.
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To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
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If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
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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.
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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.
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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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Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.
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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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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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True success is obeying God.
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A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
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To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.
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You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
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When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
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Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.
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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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