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You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.
Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.
I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.
The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.
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.
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.
We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.
If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)
The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.
If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.
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.
A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.
While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.
Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.
Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.
The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
ThereÂ’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.
No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.
If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.
I say, make the decision, and as soon as you make the decision, the rest of your life you just manage that decision on a daily basis.
I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.
We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.
It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.
You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.
If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.
Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.
Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.
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.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
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.