Top 100 Orrin Woodward Quotes

#1. Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

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#2. Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.

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#3. To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

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#4. Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.

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#5. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

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#6. You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

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#7. Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.

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#8. The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.

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#9. I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

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#10. A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

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#11. Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

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#12. Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.

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#13. The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?

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#14. Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

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#15. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

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#16. In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

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#17. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

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#18. If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

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#19. Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

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#20. Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

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#21. You cannot expect others to believe in you until you believe in yourself.

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#22. Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

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#23. Losers sulk; posers talk; winners walk - choose wisely.

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#24. Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

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#25. The gap between intentions and actions is character.

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#26. Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness

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#27. Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

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#28. Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

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#29. Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.

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#30. Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

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#31. Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

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#32. Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

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#33. The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

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#34. Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

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#35. Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

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#36. Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

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#37. The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.

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#38. If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

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#39. Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

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#40. Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

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#41. The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

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#42. Truth is an acquired taste.

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#43. A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

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#44. Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

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#45. But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.

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#46. The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

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#47. Pressure squeezes effort out of winners and excuses out of losers.

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#48. Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

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#49. Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

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#50. More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.

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#51. Don't waste tomorrow on yesterday.

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#52. Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

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#53. Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

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#54. Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

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#55. The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest.

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#56. Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

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#57. Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

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#58. Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

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#59. When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

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#60. A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

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#61. Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

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#62. Sight is seeing with the eyes; vision is seeing with the mind.

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#63. Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

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#64. Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

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#65. In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

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#66. Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

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#67. A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.

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#68. Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.

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#69. Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

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#70. Never complain about what you permit to be.

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#71. The greatest leaders are reluctant ones who lead because they realize that no one else seems willing to step up.

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#72. What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

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#73. A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

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#74. A bitter heart is never thankful & a thankful heart is never bitter.

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#75. There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

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#76. The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

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#77. The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.

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#78. Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

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#79. Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

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#80. You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.

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#81. Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

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#82. Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

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#83. Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

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#84. Happiness comes from serving others.

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#85. Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

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#86. Every right that we enjoy has a corresponding duty to not interfere with the enjoyment of the same right by others.

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#87. Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams; the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

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#88. You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

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#89. You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

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#90. A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

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#91. If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

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#92. Compromised commitments today lead to creative excuses tomorrow.

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#93. Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

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#94. Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

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#95. You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.

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#96. Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

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#97. Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

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#98. A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

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#99. Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

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#100. The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.

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