Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
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.
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
True success is obeying God.
Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.
Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.
It is easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.
A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn’t appear to be required.
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won’t be able to go as far.
The road to success is long and up hill all the way.
Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out – life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future – life seems abundant.
Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.
Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course.