Steve Smith

“If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up not doing anything for anybody.” -MALCOLM BANE From "Everyone Communicates, Few Connect" by John C. Maxwell

Every leader is great at something, but no leader is great at everything. - Gavin Adams

When your prayer life goes to sleep your past life seems to wake up! - Mark Condon

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. - Charles Schwab

Missionary Adoniram Judson is rumored to have said, “There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.” - John C. Maxwell in Leadershift

Few of us manage to go through life without collecting a group of individuals who would not be sorry to learn we have died. - Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why—why you’re doing what you’re doing—then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles. - Dave Ramsey

“Posterity who are to reap the blessings,” wrote Abigail Adams, “will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.” - David McCullough in The Course of Human Events

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. - Noel Tichy in The Leadership Engine

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. - Simon Sinek

As leaders, you and I have to be changed to bring change. - John C. Maxwell in Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace

How we view things determines how we do things. - John C. Maxwell in Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you’ve done what you are expected to do. - Brian Tracey

Good leaders inspire others only to the extent that they inspire themselves. - John C. Maxwell in The Leader's Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying Leaders

If you develop the habits of success, you’ll make success a habit. - Michael Angier

People stay as sick as their secrets. - Chris Hodges in Jesus, The High Road Leader: Follow the Path He Wants Us to Travel

If we can stop wanting to be in first place, we will be more like Jesus. - John C. Maxwell in Jesus, The High Road Leader: Follow the Path He Wants Us to Travel

There is no victory at bargain basement prices. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you’re a parent, don’t celebrate anything more than you celebrate godly character in your children. - C.J. Mahaney in Humility: True Greatness