The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

Without failure there is no achievement.

There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.