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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.

John C. Maxwell

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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Achievement Knowledge Motivational Persistence Problem Pursue Yourself
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself
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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Control Deep Peace Spiritual Yourself
Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
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God Limitation Negative Potential Thinking
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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Correct Leadership Life Mistake Recognition Success Work
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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Learning Mistake Person Success Wisdom
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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Big Career Purpose Yourself
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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Advice Build Communication Connection Experience Kind People Result Talk Yourself
You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
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Character Deep Talk Yourself
We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
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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Change Dreams Habit Need Yourself
Make personal growth a daily priority.
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Growth Improvement One Liner Priority Self Love
Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
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Hate Practice Yourself
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself
To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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Character Deep Head Heart Leadership
When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
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Action Character Feeling Focus Person Strength Value. Thinking
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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Influence Inspirational Learning Motivational People Positive Thinking Understand Way
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.
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Achievement Adversity Dreams Failure Life Yourself
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
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Attitude Day Greatness Growth Life Ourselves Responsibility Yourself
I 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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Believe Best Myself People See Thinking Wisdom
If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Action Feeling Patience Wait Yourself
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.
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Ability Better Direction Failure Learning Mistake
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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Hands Head Heart Leadership Person Yourself
So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.
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Hard Thinking Time Yourself
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.
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Action Blame Failure Improvement Learning Mistake People Potential Problem Responsibility Simplicity Yourself
To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Life Stay Strength Success
Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.
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Decision God Life Money Place Yourself

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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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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