Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.
JOHN C. MAXWELLGiving is the highest level of living.
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If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.
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It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
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SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
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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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Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
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You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
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Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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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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Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
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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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Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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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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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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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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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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Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
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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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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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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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You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.
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Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.
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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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The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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You add value to people when you value them.
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