The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

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

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

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

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.

Good people always rise to your level of expectation.