To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.