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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.

John C. Maxwell

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
The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.
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Business Future Old Past Person World
The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
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Better Compare Goal Improvement Mission Oneself 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
You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Attitude Smart Yourself
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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Big Correct Enough Man Mistake Profit Smart Strong
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Deep Future Hope Present
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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Achievement Attitude Himself Man Positive Quality Success
We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
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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Change Creation Difference Inspirational Journey Live Ourselves Path Yourself
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
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Hands Heart Leadership Touch
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
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Himself Leadership People Service
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
Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.
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Person Value Yourself
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
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Greatness Patience Wait 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
True success is obeying God.
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God Obey One Liner Success True
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.
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Animal Decision Funny Life
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
If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.
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Influence Inspirational Learning Motivational People Positive Thinking Understand Way
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
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Life Ride 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 underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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Encouragement Power Word
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
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
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

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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