Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
JOHN C. MAXWELLThe person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.
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You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.
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When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
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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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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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SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
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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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We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
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Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.
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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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Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
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Giving is the highest level of living.
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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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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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If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
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Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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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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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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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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True success is obeying God.
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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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