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Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

John C. Maxwell

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
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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Accomplishment Attachment Endurance Faith Hard Work Patience Price Sacrifice Worth
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
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
It’s better to prepare than to repair.
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Better Motivational One Liner Preparation Repair
True success is obeying God.
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God Obey One Liner Success True
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
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Action Character Feeling Focus Person Strength Value. Thinking
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
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
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
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
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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Action Blame Failure Improvement Learning Mistake People Potential Problem Responsibility Simplicity 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
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
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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Destruction People Start Vision

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