You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
JOHN C. MAXWELLIf you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.
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People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.
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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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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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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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You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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True success is obeying God.
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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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When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
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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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Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
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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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Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others
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God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.
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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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God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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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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Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
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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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To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
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Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don’t wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.
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The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.
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To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
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