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God doesn’t move until we move first.

John C. Maxwell

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
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
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
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
You add value to people when you value them.
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People Respect Value 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
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
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
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Confidence Feeling Goodness Leadership People
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
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
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Determination Life Past Result Thinking Yourself
The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
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Breathe Deep Direction Influence
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
If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.
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Need Passionate Positive Responsibility Yourself
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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Big Correct Enough Man Mistake Profit Smart Strong
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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Determination Easy Encouragement Herself Himself Person Yourself
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
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Deep Need Transformation

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