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If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.
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Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally. They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive attitude. At
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Just for Today . . . Just for today . . . I will choose and display the right attitudes. Just for today . . . I will determine and act on important priorities. Just for today . . . I will know and follow healthy guidelines. Just for today . . . I will communicate with and care for my family. Just for today . . . I will practice and develop good thinking. Just for today . . . I will make and keep proper commitments. Just for today . . . I wi..
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Because as the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates.
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See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.
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The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.
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Success consists of a series of little daily victories." --Laddie F. Hutar"
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As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, "In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock."
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The bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
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How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours." --Wayne W. Dyer"
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True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time--either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.
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You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
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Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?"
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ACCIDENTAL GROWTH INTENTIONAL GROWTH Plans to Start Tomorrow Insists on Starting Today Waits for Growth to Come Takes Complete Responsibility to Grow Learns Only from Mistakes Often Learns Before Mistakes Depends on Good Luck Relies on Hard Work Quits Early and Often Perseveres Long and Hard Falls into Bad Habits Fights for Good Habits Talks Big Follows Through Plays It Safe Takes Risks Thinks Like a Victim Thinks Like a Learner Relies on T..
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As a leader, you don't earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don't get credit for being "right" as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader."
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A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem. It's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.
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I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able, as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, And hate myself for things I have done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself, as I come and go, Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress up myself in ..
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Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.
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The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be..
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Some people want to put restrictions on themselves according to their talent, intelligence, or experience. Others worry about their age. But with God, one person can always make a difference, regardless of circumstances or situation. And age means nothing to Him. When Jesus fed the five thousand, a boy provided the loaves and fishes (John 6:1-13). And in the case of Noah, when it began to rain and he entered the ark, he was six hundred year..
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When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.
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If you don't like the crop you are reaping, check the seed you are sowing.
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Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.
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Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
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you should not be led by popular opinion;
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An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.
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If you want to create capacity and margin in your life, I suggest that you do the following: * Delegate so you're working smarter, not just harder. * Do what you do best and drop the rest. * Get control of your calendar; otherwise other people will. * Do what you love because it will give you energy. * Work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted. If you do those things while doing the right work with purpose in the right place w..
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Henry Ford, who said, "Don't find a fault; find a remedy."
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One day when the Raiders were in Oakland, a reporter visited their locker room to talk to Ken Stabler. Stabler really wasn't known as an intellectual, but he was a good quarterback. This newspaperman read him some English prose: "I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than that it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glo..
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The most important personal-growth phrase you will ever hear a good leader say to you is "follow me."
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To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.
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Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.
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Everything looks like a failure in the middle.
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Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. --HENRY C . L I NK
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Dale Carnegie was a master at identifying potential leaders. Once asked by a reporter how he had managed to hire forty-three millionaires, Carnegie responded that the men had not been millionaires when they started working for him. They had become millionaires as a result. The reporter next wanted to know how he had developed these men to become such valuable leaders. Carnegie replied, "Men are developed the same way gold is mined. Several ..
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Believe in the value of others. Carlisle said, "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man." The value you place on people determines whether you are a motivator or a manipulator of men."
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Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.
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distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership, but if you don't have the right people, you're not going to get anywhere.
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There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story." --Fred Rogers"
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Managers work with processes--leaders work with people.
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Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.
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You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
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