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God Wants To Be Our Partner Throughout Life. Too Often We Are Tempted To Either Carry The Entire Load Ourselves Or Give Everything To God And Do Nothing. God Doesn't Like Either Strategy. Sometimes He Moves Before Us And Sometimes After Us - But He Doesn't Move Without Us. Without God... We Cannot. Without Us... God Will Not.

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God Wants To Be Our Partner Throughout Life. Too Often We Are Tempted To Either Carry The Entire Load Ourselves Or Give Everything To God And Do Nothing. God Doesn't Like Either Strategy. Sometimes He Moves Before Us And Sometimes After Us - But He Doesn't Move Without Us. Without God... We Cannot. Without Us... God Will Not.

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Leadership Is Not A Right-it Is A Responsibility.

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The Dream Is Free...but The Journey Will Cost You Something.

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My Leadership Began To Take Flight When I Allowed Myself To Press People To Change-whether They Thanked Me Or Cursed Me.

It Is Our Decisions Not Our Conditions That Determine Our Quality Of Life.

The Success Of A Vision Is Determined By Its Ownership By Both The Leader And The People.

Three Reasons Problems Are Inevitable; First, We Live In A World Of Growing Complexity And Diversity; Second, We Interact With People; And Third, We Cannot Control All The Situation We Face.

The Experience Of Pain Or Loss Can Be A Formidably Motivating Force.

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The Unexamined Leader Is Not Worth Following.

To Really Become Motivated To Succeed, People Need To Believe They Can Win.

Negative Thinking Blows Everything Out Of Proportion.

The Wrong Action Done At The Wrong Time Spells Disaster The Right Action Done At The Wrong Time Spells Resistance The Wrong Action Done At The Right Time Spells Mistake But The Right Action Done At The Right Time Spells A Miracle

Without Love, There Can Be No Connection, No Future, And No Success Together.

The Effectiveness Of Your Work Will Never Rise Above Your Ability To Lead And Influence Others.

Everyone Has The Power To Impact The Outcome Of His Life. The Way To Do It Is To Focus On Today. . . It Is Too Late For Yesterday. And You Can't Depend On Tomorrow.

Success Doesn't Come Instantly. Neither Does The Ability To Lead.

People May Teach What They Know, But They Reproduce What They Are.

People Knowledge Is Much More Important Than Mere Product Knowledge.

Good Attitudes Among Players Do Not Guarantee A Team's Success, But Bad Attitudes Guarantee It's Failure.

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 Law Of Process Says — Leaders Develop Daily, Not In A Day.

You Can Easily Determine The Caliber Of A Person By The Amount Of Opposition It Takes To Discourage Him Or Her.

Usually The Person Who Rises Within An Organization Has A Good Attitude. The Promotions Did Not Give That Individual An Outstanding Attitude, But An Outstanding Attitude Resulted In Promotions.

Self-discipline, More Than Any Other Personal Quality I Can Think Of, Is The One Thing That Separates Successful People From The Unsuccessful. Think Of All It Encompasses: Honoring Commitments, Promises And Deadlines, Keeping Your Life On Schedule, Being Willing To Go The Extra Mile... Self-discipline Is Essential To Success. The Alternative Is A Life Ruled By Emotions, And None Of Us Can Afford That If We're Going To Fulfill Our Purpose And Realize Our Potential.

If You Want To Be Positive, Upbeat, And Passionate, You Need To Take Responsibility For Being That Way.

If Churches Would Take Ownership Of A Vision, The Next Pastor Who Is Thinking About Coming To That Church Can See What Their Vision Is And Then Determine If Their Vision Fits With His Or Her Ministry. If It Doesn't, Then It Would Be Wrong For That Pastor To Come To That Church.

Good People Always Rise To Your Level Of Expectation.

We Won't Fully Experience Joy Until We've Answered Life's Biggest Question: Why Am I Here?

Everyone Has The Potential To Become An Encourager. You Don't Have To Be Rich. You Don't Have To Be A Genius. You Don't Have To Have It All Together. All You Have To Do Is Care About People And Initiate.

In My Organizations I Don't Have Employees; I Have Teammates. Yes, I Do Pay People And Offer Them Benefits. But People Don't Work For Me. They Work With Me. We Are Working Together To Fulfill The Vision. Without Them, I Cannot Succeed. Without Me, They Cannot Succeed. We're A Team. We Reach Our Goals Together. We Need Each Other. If We Didn't, Then One Of Us Is In The Wrong Place.

People Say, "john, What's Your Personal Growth?" And Ask "how Do You Grow?" And I Tell Them. I Thought, "why Do I Keep Telling Them, Why Don't I Just Write A Book On What I Call Personal Growth?" And That's What This [today Matters] Book Is.

Remember, Man Does Not Live On Bread Alone: Sometimes He Needs A Little Buttering Up.

Be Generous, Be Humble, And Be Grateful When Achieving Your Dreams.

The Only Thing We Can Control Is What We Do In The Present. The More We Replay Yesterday, The Further We Get From Today's Opportunities. And The Further Away We Move From Opportunities, The Tougher The Road Is To Get Back. Opportunities Never Look As Good Coming As They Do Going, And They Wait For No One. We Need To Be Highly Attentive To Spot Them. And We Must Be Focused On Our Present Capabilities, Not Past Regrets.

The Truth Is That You Can Spend Your Life Any Way You Want, But You Can Spend It Only Once.

Decision-making Takes Care Of Goal-setting, But Discipline Also Takes Care Of Goal-getting. Decisions And Discipline Can't Be Separated; One Is Worthless Without The Other.

You Will Never Change Your Life Until You Change Something You Do Daily. Success Doesn't Just Suddenly Occur One Day In Someone's Life. Neither Does Failure. Each Is A Process. Every Day Of Your Life Is Merely Preparation For The Next. What You Become Is The Result Of What You Do Today.

The Size Of Your Miracle Depends On The Size Of Your Problem.

The Only One You Should Compare Yourself To Is You. Your Mission Is To Become Better Today Than You Were Yesterday.

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