You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
JOHN C. MAXWELLI think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
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A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
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You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
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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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If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
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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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If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
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You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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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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It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
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Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
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The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
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