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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.
It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.
Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.
Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.
we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.
There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.
The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.
Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.
God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.
The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.
If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream
If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.
Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.
So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.
If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.
If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.
The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.
Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.
Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.
By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.
Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.
The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.
The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.
Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!
The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.
If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.