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Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

John C. Maxwell

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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Creation Endurance Future Motivational Try 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 add value to people when you value them.
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People Respect Value Yourself
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
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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Big Development Focus Goodness Leadership Organization People Potential Way
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
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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Accomplishment Attachment Endurance Faith Hard Work Patience Price Sacrifice Worth
Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
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God Limitation Negative Potential Thinking
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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Hands Head Heart Leadership Person 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
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Enough Leadership Motivational Relationship
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
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
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
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Correct Leadership Life Mistake Recognition Success Work
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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Change Failure Need Planning Vision Yourself
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
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
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
You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
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Attitude Smart Yourself
Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
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Attitude Best Enemy Friendship Greatness Worst Yourself
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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Big Commitment Dreams Give Up Growth Happiness Inspirational Opportunity Planning Priority Sacrifice Success Wait Willing
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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Hard Thinking Time Yourself
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
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Deep Need Transformation
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Ourselves Struggle
If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
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Focus Goal Growth Hit Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.
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Person Value Yourself

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