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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

John C. Maxwell

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
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Enough Leadership Motivational Relationship
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
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
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
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
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Determination Life Past Result Thinking 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
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
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
Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others
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Empowerment Leadership Rich 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
Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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Encouragement Power Word
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
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
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
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God Live Need People Yourself

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