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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.

John C. Maxwell

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
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Difference Myself Success Value
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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Character Limitation Rise Stop Success 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
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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Control Deep Peace Spiritual Yourself
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
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
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
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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Advice Build Communication Connection Experience Kind People Result Talk Yourself
We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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Creation Endurance Future Motivational Try Yourself
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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Achievement Consistency Discipline Greatness Leadership Repeat Slow Time
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.
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Achievement Adversity Dreams Failure Life Yourself
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Ourselves Struggle
If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Action Feeling Patience Wait Yourself
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Commitment Confidence Leadership
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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Hard Thinking Time Yourself
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Enough Leadership Motivational Relationship
Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.
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Dreams Obstacle Path Struggle Yourself
Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.
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Decision God Life Money Place Yourself
Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others
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Empowerment Leadership Rich Yourself
Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
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Discipline Intention Success
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
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Beyond Control Leadership Live Management Priority Time
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
Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
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Leadership Love Need People Yourself
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Excuse Leadership Responsibility
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
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Attitude Feeling People Word Yourself
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

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