Without courage, it doesn’t matter how good the leader’s intentions are.

Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader’s role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

The difference between success & failure isn’t ability as much as action.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn’t know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

Do you have the talent?’ is rarely the question. ‘Do you have the guts to finish?’ is the real question.

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

Leaders don’t correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

Never let what you don’t know stop you from doing what you do know.

You cannot live your dreams and fears simultaneously. One must die.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

It’s not about what you’re capable of, it’s about what you are willing to endure.

Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

It’s not the gifts you don’t have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don’t use.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

If you want to live the life you’ve always wanted, you’ll have to make the changes you’ve always needed.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams; the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you’re not moving.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person’s life because you ultimately become what you believe.