We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
JOHN C. MAXWELLYou either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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Giving is the highest level of living.
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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You add value to people when you value them.
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If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.
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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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Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
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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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All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
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If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.
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Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
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All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
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People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.
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Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
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Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
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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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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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The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
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God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
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You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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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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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
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