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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.

John C. Maxwell

If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.
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Change Direction End Journey Travel Yourself
The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
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Action Better Failure Learning Yourself
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Commitment Confidence Leadership
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Excuse Leadership Responsibility
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
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Ability Empowerment Greatness Leadership Power
Your goal as a leader isn’t to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
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Goal Leadership Leaving People
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
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
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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Encouragement Power Word
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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Greatness Patience Wait Yourself
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
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Change Failure Need Planning Vision Yourself
The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
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Himself Leadership People Service
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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Big Development Focus Goodness Leadership Organization People Potential Way
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
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Deep Future Hope Present
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
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
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Hands Heart Leadership Touch
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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Build Failure Hurt Learning Monument Past Problem Tragedy
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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Deal Different Mindset People Problem Success
It’s better to prepare than to repair.
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Better Motivational One Liner Preparation Repair
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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Adversity Journey Key Success
You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.
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Belief Believe 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
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
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
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Leadership Oneself Way
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
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Build Integrity Time Trust Yourself

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