Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.