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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

John C. Maxwell

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
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
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
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 never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
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Character Deep Talk 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
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
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
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Enough Leadership Motivational Relationship
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
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Excuse Leadership Responsibility
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
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
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
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
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

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