Pastor Quotes

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Take charge of your thoughts!

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

There's a tendency for us to think that the secret of our success is something that is mystical and maybe someday my time will come. And it's certainly out there somewhere; it's around the bend; it's at the top of the hill.

You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Do you want to come climb the transformationa l leadership mountain with me? Your first step begins with DESIRE. Do you want to make a difference in the lives of others? If your answer is yes, you can be that agent of change you wish to see around the world!

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Smart leaders believe only half of what theyhear. Discerning leaders know which haveto believe.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

I guess I'd rather be loved than respected.

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

Your attitude is a choice.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

You don't become an effective leader by default.

Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.

The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

Collaboration is multiplication.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that 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. Most of the time we miss that.