Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
JOHN C. MAXWELLTo 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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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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The first person you lead is you.
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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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Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
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Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
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You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
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Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.
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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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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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It’s better to prepare than to repair.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.
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Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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