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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

John C. Maxwell

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
You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Attitude Smart Yourself
Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.
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Choice Commitment Condition Result
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Ourselves Struggle
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
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Destruction People Start Vision
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Commitment Confidence Leadership
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
Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
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Attitude Best Enemy Friendship Greatness Worst 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
We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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Choice Life Preparation Repair Yourself
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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Better Compare Goal Improvement Mission Oneself Yourself
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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Action Kind Mistake People Work World
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
SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
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Difference Myself Success Value
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

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