If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It’s not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
If the reaction is worse than the action, the problem usually increases. If the reaction is less than the action, the problem usually decreases.
If a team is to accomplish its goals, it has to know where it stands.
If I wanted to make a difference… Wishing for things to change wouldn’t make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn’t bring them. Dreaming wouldn’t provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn...
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
I saw a television sketch that, with some variations, might seem familiar in many households. A husband is watching television and his wife if trying to engage him in conversation: Wife: Dear, the plu...
I can control my feelings by controlling my thoughts.
I believe that no matter what plot each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives to matter. We want our stories to be of significance.
I believe all of us can identify with the poet Carl Sandberg, who said, There is an eagle in me that wants to soar and a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. The key to success is follo...
I am going to keep a positive attitude and use it to influence others.
Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. All of us are a bundle of both great strengths and great weaknesses and humility is being able to be honest abou...
How Do You Write the Word Attitude? Directions: 1. Write the word attitude on the left line with your writing hand. 2. Write the word attitude on the right line with your other hand. The word attitude...
He who seeks one thing, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Must reap around him in whatever he sows A harvest of barren regret.
Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.
Goethe recommended, Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That’s the Law of...
Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.
Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.
Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower.
English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself.