"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first."

"You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside."

"To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes."

"I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing."

"Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential."

"People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best."

"It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value."

"Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day."

"I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it."

"A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance."