While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.
Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.
Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.
Motivation is like love and happiness. It’s a by-product. When you’re actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.
It’s better to give ideas away and contribute to another person’s success than to have them lying dormant.
It’s more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.
Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.
The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.
The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.
As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person’s response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.
Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.
The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.
Feed your faith, starve your doubts.
Behind every great idea is someone saying “It won’t work”
To add growth, lead followers – to multiply, lead leaders.
Your attitude is a choice.
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you’ll never perform at the level of a 10. You’ll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.
Make personal growth a daily priority.
If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.