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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Deep Future Hope Present
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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Influence Investment Leadership People Start Time Yourself
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself
SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
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Difference Myself Success Value
You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Attitude Smart Yourself
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
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Leadership Oneself Way
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
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
You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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Big Challenge Improvement Inspirational Small Yourself
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
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
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
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Achievement Attitude Himself Man Positive Quality Success
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
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
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

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