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.
JOHN C. MAXWELLYour 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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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 will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.
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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 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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To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
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You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
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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 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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If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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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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There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.
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Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
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God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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