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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Love quotes

Quotes About Love 


  • A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings
  • A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. The Wizard to the Tin Man
  • I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. --CHARLES DICKENS
  • A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.
  • A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes Jr.
  • Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
  • Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
  • All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. --JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tsu
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
  • Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. - David Chambless
  • Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people. Sigmund Freud
  • Every experience of accepting love strengthens the muscles of the personality. Jean Illsley Clarke & Connie Dawson (Growing Up Again)
  • Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. Charles Spurgeon
  • Falling in love ... I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful. Manuel (age 8 )
  • Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. John (age 9)
  • Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening
  • Fill every thought with determination, Every step with courage and every word with love. unknown
  • For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
  • God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing. Brian Tracy
  • He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us. St. Augustine of Hippo
  • He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. Forrest Tucker
  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa
  • I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
  • I love mankind; it's people I can't stand Woody Paige
  • I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
  • I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. Og Mandino
  • If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long. Glenn (age 7)
  • If I learn to create love in my heart and silently share it with everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life.
  • If I learn to create love in my heart and silently share it with everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life. unknown
  • If I limit the love I give to just one or two, it will eventually go stale. If I learn to create love inside my heart and silently give it to everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life. unknown
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Woody Paige
  • If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. James A. Garfield
  • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
  • If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne
  • If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. Nikka, age 6
  • If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. Ben Franklin
  • In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Artist
  • It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
  • It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. Eric Hoffer
  • It's been lovely but I have to scream now Woody Paige
  • Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity - all of God's children. Alvin Alexsi Currier
  • Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved. Henri Nouwen
  • Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long. Kenneth Boulding
  • Let us plant dates--even though we who plant them will never eat them....We must live by the love of what we will never see. Ruben Alves (Theologian)
  • Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile. unknown
  • Life is the flower for which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Novelist and dramatist
  • Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
  • Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. William Barclay
  • Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too. Dr. Karl Menninger
  • Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
  • Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
  • Love is a fruit. A fruit of whom? Of your hard work? Of your deep faith? Of your rigorous resolve? No. Love is a fruit of the Spirit of God. "The Spirit produces the fruit" (Gal. 5:22, NCV). Max Lucado (A Love Worth Giving)
  • Love is an attachment to something or someone that eventually welds itself to the heart... Doug Firebaugh
  • Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
  • Love is by far the most important thing of all. Brian Tracy
  • Love is like the measles: We all have to go through it.
  • Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst
  • Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. C. S. Lewis
  • Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. unknown
  • Love is what is left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
  • Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
  • Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. Sean Connery
  • Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. Katherine Anne Porter
  • Love of our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone, to do what good we can when we can, and to bear, excuse and hide others' faults. St. John Vianney
  • Love should be a verb, not a noun. Denis Waitley
  • Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. Margaret Walker
  • Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
  • Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Corita Kent
  • Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal
  • Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me. Dave (age 8)
  • Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
  • Love's a choice. Make wise decisions. Shellie R. Warren
  • More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born.
  • My liberty as a Christian should always be supremely shackled by the love I am commanded to have towards another. Avery D. Miller
  • No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Muriac
  • O tell her, brief is life but love is long. Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. Judith Viorst
  • One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael
  • Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher
  • Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful a thought that is love. Mary Manin Morrissey
  • The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose. Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) Historian
  • The age of your heart is the age of what you love. Marcel Prévost (1862-1941); French writer
  • The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
  • The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet
  • The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. - Rick Warren
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton
  • The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet
  • The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? Margaret Gatty
  • The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal
  • The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men. A. W. Tozer
  • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. --James Michener
  • The noble love of Jesus impels a man to do great things, and stirs him up to be always longing for what is more perfect. Thomas à Kempis
  • The only thing that you can never have too much of is love. Brian Tracy
  • The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love. Ed Habib
  • The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches. Dwight L. Moody
  • There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey
  • There is nothing you can do to make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is unconditional, impartial, everlasting, infinite, perfect! God is love!
  • There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. Albert Camus
  • Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. A.W. Pinero
  • To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist
  • To live a little, you've got to love a whole lot. Love turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. Life is a gift we're given each and every day. Dream about tomorrow, but live for today. Don't wait for tomorrow. Make memories today. Life is for Living. unknown
  • To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott, M.D.
  • To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose the next best. William M. Thackeray
  • To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings. Portuguese Proverb
  • To love is to be vulnerable C.S. Lewis
  • To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. J.E. Buchrose
  • To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. William Temple
  • Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore
  • True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. Leanna L. Bartram
  • Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love! Pete Welsh
  • We all need love, but we need it most when we deserve it least--when we have sinned against someone, when we have made poor choices, when we have failed. In these situations, ordinary love must become extra-ordinary love. Barbara Rosberg
  • We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. Mother Teresa
  • We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)
  • We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
  • We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Theresa
  • We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. Brooks Atkinson
  • We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. M. Acklam
  • We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust. Madame de Choiseul
  • We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. Ed Howe
  • We need someone to believe in us -- if we do well, we want our work commended, our faith corroborated. The individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on your good qualities, and does not look for your flaws, is your friend. Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is the one who recognizes the good in me. Elbert Hubbard
  • We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.
  • What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn
  • What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa
  • What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey
  • When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Charles Reade
  • When the people we love are stolen from us, the only way to keep them is to never stop loving them. People die, buildings burn, but eternal love lasts forever, Anonymous
  • When you care about other people, you are more likely to know how to really love, and how to be loved back. Laura Shipler Chico (Social worker)
  • Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy, Martha Beck (Expecting Adam)
  • Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. Aristotle
  • Without real love there is no music, No songs, no stories worth singing about. Kenneth Edmonds
  • You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.
  • You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. Melanie Clark
  • You must feel love within, before you can share it. Denis Waitley
  • The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. --VICTOR HUGO
  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. --OSCAR WILDE
  • When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times. --MITCH ALBOM
  • Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. --DAPHNE DU MAURIER
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. --Lao-Tzu
  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. --Martin Luther King, Jr.



Dinah Maria Mulock Craik was one of the most successful women poets and novelists of the 19th century. She published her first work, “The Ogilvies,” in 1849 to critical acclaim, and soon garnered comparison to such influential writers as George Eliot. “The Ogilvies,” in which this quote appears, follows the romantic entanglements and subsequent marriages of three cousins (a popular 19th-century literary convention, as Jane Austen proved decades earlier). Craik’s words offer a timeless truism about love’s cyclical nature — that the care and compassion we give others, we’ll receive in kind. 





French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of the classic 1943 novel “The Little Prince,” wrote often on themes of love, suffering, and connection. Saint-Exupéry himself was known for his long, complex marriage to writer and artist Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, who inspired the character of the Rose in “The Little Prince.” In the book, the Prince and the Rose eventually realize that while they do love each other, they show it in different ways. With this line, Saint-Exupéry reminds us that true love should always feel nourishing.


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Lead With Love = So many people don’t know what love is. In Greek, there are words for 4 different types of love—romantic love, brotherly love, and the love between a parent and child. The 4th word for love—the type that represents a leadership principle—is Agape. This type of love is a verb, how you behave, not how you feel. Love is patient, kind, trusting, truthful, forgiving, unselfish, and it is dedicated to love in all circumstances. If you want to be a better servant leader, lead with love.


Do You Love Unconditionally? | MWM
Love Unconditionally = No matter what happens in life, having someone who will listen to you and love you, is unconditional love. Unconditional love is having someone you can go to and say anything to, and they will always love you. Nothing can replace unconditional love. 
Do You Love Unconditionally? = When you love unconditionally, the impact and influence can be tremendous. When you love, and are loved unconditionally, no matter what you say or do, you will always be loved. Nothing can replace unconditional love.





There Is Value In Loving People = John shares with us that we need to love people, indicating that all of his previous lessons from his father are products of loving people. By adding value to people, traveling the high road, and encouraging others—all of these lessons are rooted in loving people.

See the best in others.




The Highest Compliment Love others as you love yourself. There is so much power behind the word love, use it generously and wisely. 

It's Always About Others = When you stop loving your people, you have essentially concluded your ability to effectively lead them. While it is important to lead with authenticity, so your people believe in you, it is far more important for you to believe in your people. Your leadership depends on it. Without it, you might as well quit.




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Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Titus 3:5 "Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Galatians 2:20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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Kevin Rayner


Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Agape Love Quotes

Quotes About Agape Love

  • Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
  • Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. --HERMANN HESSE
  • You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
  • The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. --Rick Warren
  • What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's. --Max Lucado
  • There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances. --Stephen Kendrick
  • Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. --Peter Kreeft
  • On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you've done or haven't done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love! --Joyce Meyer
  • Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful. --Rob Bell
  • It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God. --David Jeremiah
  • I have decided to stick with love... Hate is too great a burden to bear. --MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
  • We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own. --THOMAS AQUINAS
  • I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. --Martin Luther King, Jr.








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Lead With Love = So many people don’t know what love is. In Greek, there are words for 4 different types of love—romantic love, brotherly love, and the love between a parent and child. The 4th word for love—the type that represents a leadership principle—is Agape. This type of love is a verb, how you behave, not how you feel. Love is patient, kind, trusting, truthful, forgiving, unselfish, and it is dedicated to love in all circumstances. If you want to be a better servant leader, lead with love.

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John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:17 (MSG) “But remember the root command: Love one another.
2 John 1:3 (MSG) Let grace, mercy, and peace be with us in truth and love from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, Son of the Father!
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Titus 3:5 "Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Galatians 2:20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 John 4:8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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Kevin Rayner


Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Influence Quotes

Quotes About Influence / Influential Leadership
  • Leadership is influence.
  • A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops. --Henry Brooks Adams
  • Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. --Albert Schweitzer
  • Influence is about being genuine.
  • Is it evident that Satan is influencing your children and leading them away from God? Get mad about it.  --Brian Zahnd
  • It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.' --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  • People may not remember what you say, or what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel. --Don Rousey
  • The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. --John Quincy Adams
  • The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the power of God. --Blaise Pascal
  • The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. -- Duguet
  • The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. --Deepak Chopra
  • There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885); French author.
  • To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. --
  • You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. --Scott Adams
  • You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you. -Henry Drummond
  • Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON







MWM | The Influence Myth
Lead and Influence Others No Matter Where You Are In Your Leadership Journey = A common myth about influence says that if you are on top, people will follow you. But is that true? Leadership is about influence, nothing more, nothing less. No matter your position or title, you need to look for ways to add value to people, to influence people, and you have to be intentional about it. You can lead and influence others exactly where you are right now.




Taking an Influence Inventory | MWM
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Nothing More Nothing Less = Leadership is influence. If you want to become a better leader, you need to become a better influencer. As a leader and influencer, think about those who have influenced your life, and what you have learned from them.


It’s Not What Happens TO You; It’s What Happens IN You | MWM
Have A Positive Attitude = Attitude is everything. It is important to have a great attitude about yourself, other people, and life. It isn’t what happens to you, but what happens in you. If you can find the bright side of things in tough situations, keeping a positive attitude, you will be capable of happiness in any circumstance.
#Dad #Attitude #Happy


Make Each Day Your Masterpiece | MWM
Live In The Now! = Make today count, make it matter. Make each day your masterpiece. People often miss the moment because they are looking behind or ahead, instead of being all in, in the moment. Always be present.
#Today #present #Now

Are You Amazing, or is Your Gift? How to Stay Humble | MWM
Share Your Gifts With Others = The gift is always greater than the person. We all have been blessed with gifts that make us look better than we really are. Our gifts are what make us amazing, not us. These gifts are given to us not earned, but it is important that we work hard to reach the potential of our gifts and share them with others. 
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Love Where You Are, but See Beyond | MWM
Seek The Big Picture = Always seek the big picture. Love where you are, and do the best where you are, but always do things with the big picture in mind. Keep looking for the biggest, the best, and the brightest in your life.
#BigPicture


Spend Time with People Who Think Bigger Than You Do | MWM
Get Inspired And Increase Your Vision = No matter how big you are thinking, it is important to have a vision. Allow others to be your inspiration to seek a bigger vision for your life. You will be lifted up and led to grow into a bigger, better YOU. Do you surround yourself with big thinkers with incredible vision? 
#vision

Why John Maxwell Writes Books | MWM
https://youtu.be/lN-93_2PgK8
Influence Others Through Writing = Books can expand your influence far beyond your expectations. Through writing books, authors are able to touch people that they would never meet or know personally. Do you want to reach far beyond yourself and expand your influence?
#writing #books


Leave a Greater Impact Than You Could Imagine | MWM
https://youtu.be/rpUGy4Zamjk
Add Value To Others = If you help other people get what they want first, then they will help you. By helping others first, you add value to them. If you add value to people, you'll get value returned in your life. 

Do You Live to Serve? | MWM
https://youtu.be/u4F_KZnuPQw
Live Your Life To Serve Others = When you are one step ahead of others and have someone right there to help you along the way, it gives you and others the opportunity to serve. Always be there for others, serve them, and support them. 
#Servanthood

Be a River, Not a Reservoir | MWM
https://youtu.be/wsN6USbKx1U
When You Make It, Pass It On = Always have 3 streams of finances in your life. Make sure one of those streams of income is passive. When you build a substantial, secure financial footing, it will free you up to serve others. Make money so you can be generous with your money. You can’t give what you don’t have.
#Money #FinancialFooting



How to Know if Love is Truly Unconditional | MWM
Nothing Can Replace Unconditional Love = Unconditional love means that no matter what you do, you are loved. You can say anything you want to when speaking to a person who loves you unconditionally. The people in our lives who love us unconditionally give us an example of the type of love God has for us. Unconditional love can fill your life with grace, give you confidence, security, and comfort in your own skin.
#Unconditional #Love




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Grow Influence Before Growing Your Position | MWM
Focus On Influence = Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. When you focus on the influence you have on others over focusing on the respect you receive from the people around you, it will build your credibility. Grow influence before you grow position. Grow your connection through relationships and production more than you grow your position and the respect you want from others. When you focus on influence, leadership happens. 




The True Substance of Leadership | MWM
Increase Your Influence = In his book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell discusses the Law of InfluenceIt states that the true measure of leadership is influence … Nothing more … Nothing less. Leadership is influencing other people. We do that by consistently and intentionally adding value to the people around us. Increase your influence and you will be able to take others further than they could have ever gone on their own.



Who Are the Influencers in Your Life?
LEADERSHIP IS INFLUENCE = Leadership is influence. If you want to become a better leader, you need to become a better influencer. As a leader and influencer, think about those who have influenced your life, and what you have learned from them.
The Root Of Your Influence = Leadership is influence. If you want to become a better leader, you need to become a better influencer. As a leader and influencer, think about those who have influenced your life, and what you have learned from them.
Who Are The Influencers In Your Life? = 
Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less. If you want to become a better leader, you need to become a better influencer. From there you can expand your influence, influence more people, and then influence people in a deeper way—going deeper and wider with your influence. In order to influence, you have to have been influenced. So, who has influenced you?

Impacting Your Listeners by Creating Excitement - THE LAW OF THERMOSTAT
Read The Room = Communicators read the room and then they change the temperature. You must adjust to your surroundings. The audience shouldn’t control the communicator, the communicator should control the audience. All great communicators read the room! 

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Happiness is Not About What Happens TO Us, But IN Us | MWM
Attitude is Everything = Attitude is everything. It is important to have a great attitude about yourself, other people, and life. If you can find the bright side of things in tough situations, you will continually have a great attitude.
Happiness Is Not About What Happens To Us, But In Us = Have a great attitude about yourself and life. It's not what happens to you, it's what happens in you. If you have a great attitude about life and yourself, then you can be happy.

Wise Words From Coach John Wooden | MWM
Be In The Moment = Make today count, make it matter. Make each day your masterpiece—live now, live in today. People often miss the moment because they are looking behind or ahead, instead of being in the moment. Always be in the moment, everything is now. 
Make The Moment Count = Everyday matters. Make today count, make it matter, and make each day your masterpiece—understand the moment. So many people miss the moment, so don’t miss the moment, the moment is now. 

Staying Grounded Helps You Best Use Your Gifting | MWM
Our Gifts Make Us Better Than We Really Are = The gift is always greater than the person. We all have gifts in our life that make us look better than we really are—our gifts are what make us amazing, not us. These gifts are given to us, and it is important that we work hard at our gifts and share them with others. 
It is important to understand the difference between who you are and what your gifts are. We all have some amazing gifts in our life, they lift us up and they make us look better than we really are.

Leaders See More and See Before | MWM
https://youtu.be/X8ye39vZx1s
Look At The Big Picture = Always see the big picture. In life, love where you are and do the best where you are, but always do things with the big picture in mind.
More And Before = Seek the big picture. Love where you are, and do the best where you are, but always do things with the big picture in mind. Keep looking for the biggest, the best, and the brightest in your life.
See the big picture in your life. Leaders see things more and they see them before others. It’s important to love where you are, but to always look for the bigger picture.


Surround Yourself with People Who Challenge You to Dream Big | MWM
Be Inspired, Increase Your Vision = No matter how big you are thinking, it is important to have a vision. Allow others to be your inspiration to seek a bigger vision for your life. You will be lifted up and led to grow into a bigger, better YOU. Do you surround yourself with big thinkers with incredible vision?
Seek The Most Out Of Life = No matter how big you are thinking, it is important to have a vision about life. Not all visions will be the same—some will be smaller, others will be huge—but it is important to always seek out a bigger vision for life than you originally planned.
Have a bigger vision for your life. No matter how big you are thinking, someone is always thinking bigger, so surround yourself with people who challenge you to think bigger. Dream bigger.

The Moment John Maxwell Decided to Become an Author | MWM
Expand Your Influence = Books can expand your influence far beyond your expectations. Through writing books, you expand your influence beyond yourself, and beyond who you will meet in person. 
The Moment John Maxwell Decided to Become an Author = Write books to expand your influence beyond yourself. A book will touch people you'll never see, will reach people you’ll never know personally, will speak to people who will never have a chance to hear you speak—but your books will reach them and speak to them—and you'll expand your influence. 

Zig Ziglar’s Advice for Getting What You Want
https://youtu.be/5TatWK56MEg
Help Others To Add Value = If you help other people get what they want first, then they will help you. By helping others first, you add value to them. If you add value to people, you'll get value returned in your life. 
Help Others First 
How To Add Value To Others To Get What You Want = If you help other people get what they want first in life, then they will help you get what you want in life and join your vision. More simply put, if you add value to people, you will get all kinds of value returned in your life. 

One Thing You Can Do To Impact Others for Life | MWM
Serve Others = Live to serve. When you are one step ahead of others and have someone right there to help you along the way, it gives you and others the opportunity to serve. Always be there for others, serve them, and support them. 
One Thing You Can Do To Impact Others for Life = Live to serve others. Find out what others need and what they want, and be there to serve them. Be the person who makes their day.

The Impact of Generosity | MWM
Be Generous, Give Back What You Earn = Be generous with your money. As you are building your life and businesses, always strive to have three sources of income. And then give back what you can financially to others. Being generous with your money allows you to serve others and help those you otherwise wouldn't have been able to help. You can't give what you don't have, and once you earn more, pass it on. 
The Impact Of Generosity = Because of generosity, you can have—or give—the ability and resources to others to do things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do.

Do You Love Unconditionally? | MWM
Love Unconditionally = No matter what happens in life, having someone who will listen to you and love you, is unconditional love. Unconditional love is having someone you can go to and say anything to, and they will always love you. Nothing can replace unconditional love. 
Do You Love Unconditionally? = When you love unconditionally, the impact and influence can be tremendous. When you love, and are loved unconditionally, no matter what you say or do, you will always be loved. Nothing can replace unconditional love.

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      An Intentional Leaders Guide to Influence (Maxwell Leadership Executive Podcast)
      https://youtu.be/jlEStpAcdpA
      Great leaders emphasize the importance of transparency and vulnerability in building connection and trust among team members, particularly in leadership roles. Chris and Perry discuss how leaders can demonstrate support for their team by fulfilling even small promises and commitments, which can create a positive and productive environment that empowers individuals. Moreover, this episode highlights the significance of consistency of character in leadership and the value of being the same person in every situation. The episode concludes with the message that valuing transparency and humility can lead to stronger relationships, foster growth and learning, and increase a leader's sphere of influence.



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      James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. The heartfelt supplication of a righteous man exerts a mighty influence.
      2 Thessalonians 2:13 And from us thanks are always due to God on your behalf--brethren whom the Lord loves--because God from the beginning has chosen you for salvation through the Spirit's sanctifying influence and your belief in the truth.
      1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
      Matthew 5:13-16 ESV “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
      Proverbs 27:17 ESV Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
      Proverbs 13:20 ESV Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
      1 Peter 3:16 ESV Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
      Galatians 5:7-9 ESV You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
      1 Peter 2:12 ESV Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
      1 Peter 3:15 ESV But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
      Matthew 5:13 ESV “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
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