Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
If your vision dies with you, you failed.
Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don’t believe that is who we are.
Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.
When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.
The greatest enemy of progress is your last success. You could become so proud of what you’ve already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish.
If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.
You can never change what you don’t confront and transform what you avoid.
My greatest fear is that the spirit of religion is lurking in so many churches today. Instead of men and women of God preaching about and applying Kingdom principles to everyday living, they have given the spirit of religion the power to cloud the path of others.
You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.
At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I also began to align myself with the principles that are laid down by the Creator in the book called the Bible.
Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
A person’s readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.
You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream.
Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it.