You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

The thing I see for myself is to be the best ever.