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Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.Orrin Woodward
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Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.Orrin Woodward
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The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.Orrin Woodward
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What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.Orrin Woodward
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More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.Orrin Woodward
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Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.Orrin Woodward
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Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.Orrin Woodward
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Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.Orrin Woodward
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Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.Orrin Woodward
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Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.Orrin Woodward
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A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.Orrin Woodward
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If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.Orrin Woodward
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The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.Orrin Woodward
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You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.Orrin Woodward
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Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls.Orrin Woodward
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Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.Orrin Woodward
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One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.Orrin Woodward
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Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.Orrin Woodward
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Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.Orrin Woodward
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Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.Orrin Woodward
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Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.Orrin Woodward
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True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.Orrin Woodward
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True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.Orrin Woodward
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Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!Orrin Woodward
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The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.Orrin Woodward
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Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.Orrin Woodward
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Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.Orrin Woodward
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People buy into leaders through the 3R's of Leadership: Relationship, Reason, and Results.Orrin Woodward
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New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.Orrin Woodward
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Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.Orrin Woodward
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To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.Orrin Woodward
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If you don't respect money, it won't respect you.Orrin Woodward
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The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.Orrin Woodward
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The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.Orrin Woodward
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Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.Orrin Woodward
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Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.Orrin Woodward
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You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.Orrin Woodward
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If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.Orrin Woodward
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The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted.Orrin Woodward
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A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.Orrin Woodward
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Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.Orrin Woodward
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Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.Orrin Woodward
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Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.Orrin Woodward
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Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.Orrin Woodward
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Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.Orrin Woodward
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Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.Orrin Woodward
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The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.Orrin Woodward
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To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.Orrin Woodward
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You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.Orrin Woodward
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History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.Orrin Woodward
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A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.Orrin Woodward
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A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.Orrin Woodward
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Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.Orrin Woodward
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Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.Orrin Woodward
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Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.Orrin Woodward
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Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.Orrin Woodward
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No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.Orrin Woodward
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A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.Orrin Woodward
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You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.Orrin Woodward
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Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.Orrin Woodward
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The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.Orrin Woodward
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A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.Orrin Woodward
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The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.Orrin Woodward
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To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.Orrin Woodward
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Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.Orrin Woodward
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Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.Orrin Woodward
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Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.Orrin Woodward
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Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.Orrin Woodward
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To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.Orrin Woodward
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People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.Orrin Woodward
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The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.Orrin Woodward
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Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.Orrin Woodward
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There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.Orrin Woodward
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Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.Orrin Woodward
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Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.Orrin Woodward
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Life is meant to be lived in 'the zone', not the stands.Orrin Woodward
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If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.Orrin Woodward
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To lead from the front you must get off your behind.Orrin Woodward
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Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.Orrin Woodward
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The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.Orrin Woodward
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You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.Orrin Woodward
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Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.Orrin Woodward
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Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.Orrin Woodward
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Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.Orrin Woodward
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Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.Orrin Woodward
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You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.Orrin Woodward
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You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.Orrin Woodward
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You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.Orrin Woodward
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A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.Orrin Woodward
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Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.Orrin Woodward
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Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.Orrin Woodward
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There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.Orrin Woodward
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Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.Orrin Woodward
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Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.Orrin Woodward
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A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.Orrin Woodward
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Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.Orrin Woodward
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Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.Orrin Woodward
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I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.Orrin Woodward
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In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.Orrin Woodward
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Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.Orrin Woodward