Top 100 Orrin Woodward Quotes
#1. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
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#2. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.
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#3. You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.
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#4. Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
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#5. Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
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#6. Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.
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#7. Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.
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#8. You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
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#9. Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.
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#10. It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
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#11. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
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#13. Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
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#14. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
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#15. To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.
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#17. You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.
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#18. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
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#19. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
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#20. Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)
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#21. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
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#22. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
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#23. Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
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#24. True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
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#25. Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.
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#26. You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling; you're solving problems.
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#27. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
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#28. A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.
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#29. You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.
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#30. Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.
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#31. Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.
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#32. Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
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#33. 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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#34. I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
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#36. A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.
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#37. Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.
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#38. It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.
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#39. Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.
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#40. The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.
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#41. You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.
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#42. 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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#43. The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?
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#44. Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.
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#45. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
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#46. A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
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#47. In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.
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#48. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
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#49. You cannot live your dreams and fears simultaneously. One must die.
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#50. Everyone deals with the problems of life, but remember the goal is to solve them to get new ones.
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#51. If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.
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#52. Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.
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#54. A bitter heart is never thankful & a thankful heart is never bitter.
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#55. Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.
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#56. You cannot expect others to believe in you until you believe in yourself.
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#57. Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.
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#58. Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.
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#59. Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.
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#60. Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.
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#62. Losers sulk; posers talk; winners walk - choose wisely.
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#63. When your reasons rise above your excuses, so will you.
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#64. Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.
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#65. Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.
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#66. Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.
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#67. The gap between intentions and actions is character.
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#68. Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness
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#69. Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
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#70. Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.
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#71. Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.
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#72. The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.
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#73. I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.
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#74. Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.
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#75. Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
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#76. Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.
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#77. Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
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#78. If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them
"teachable moments".
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#79. Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.
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#80. People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice.
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#81. Defeats are merely repeats with better information.
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#82. If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.
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#83. Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.
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#84. Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.
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#85. Winners gather together to fuel hope; losers gossip together to fuel hate.
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#86. A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.
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#87. If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate.
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#88. Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it.
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#90. If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.
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#91. Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.
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#92. Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.
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#93. He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.
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#94. One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.
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#95. Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.
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#96. The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.
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#97. Your dominant thoughts from your past have produced your today. Your dominant thoughts today will produce your future.
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#98. 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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