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All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

John C. Maxwell

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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Character Deep Head Heart Leadership
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Ourselves Struggle
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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Attitude Day Greatness Growth Life Ourselves Responsibility Yourself
When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!
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Commitment Creation Hope Trust Yourself
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
I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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Believe Best Myself People See Thinking Wisdom
The first person you lead is you.
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Inspirational Leadership Motivational One Liner Person Yourself
Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others
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Empowerment Leadership Rich 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
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
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Inspirational Right Start Success Yourself
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
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Change Inspirational Life Secret Success Yourself
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
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Better Growth Learning Mistake Pay Price Time Wrong Yourself
You’ll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out.
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Action Inspirational Possible Yourself
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
The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.
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Character Oneself True
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
You add value to people when you value them.
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People Respect Value Yourself
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
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
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
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Commitment Confidence Leadership
It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.
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Comfortable Gift Goodness Yourself
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
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Ability Empowerment Greatness Leadership Power
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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Demand Goodness Job Leadership Person Thinking
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
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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Desire Gift Guide Natural Vision Yourself

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