Inspirational Quotes

"Assessment is our biblical principle. The creation account in Genesis is not complete until we read that God stopped His work at the end of each day, assessed His progress, and pronounced it "Good." At the end of the seventh day, when His work was complete and He rested, He also looked over the whole of creation and exclaimed, "It is very good!" On-going systematic assessment with reflection on the big picture is more than an option for the board of a Christ-Centered organization. It is the model given to us by God Himself."
- David McKenna

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes . . . but no plans."
- Peter Druker

"The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
- Frederick Buechner

“Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.”
-Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges

"Too often, we focus our development strategies on roles and skills instead of heart and character, but trust is primarily a response to the internal rather than the external characteristics of a person. God created Adam and Eve as perfect human beings, but after they sinned, the curse gave them arduous tasks to do. And still today we define ourselves and describe each other by the things we do instead of by heart and character. In the Garden, mankind shifted from acceptance, grace, and love to blame, shame, and the compulsion to prove ourselves by our performance. To recapture God's design, we need new voices that penetrate our crusty defenses and speak to our souls, not only inspiring our actions, but even more, enflaming our hearts.”
- Samuel R. Chand

"Then it's a leaders job to plow in the compost, to take the failures and disappointments as lessons and use them as soil for new growth and new initiatives. Failures become opportunities for success."
-Derrick Mueller

“Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day.  Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.”
-Stephen M. R. Covey

“A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn’t involve measurement.”
-Patrick Lencioni

“Results matter! They matter to your credibility.”
-Stephen M. R. Covey

“As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you’re not around.  The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there.  That was the power of Jesus’ leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.”
-Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
-Stephen M. R. Covey

 “Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.”
-Stanley J. Grenz

“When you stifle human interaction by attempting to legislate the steps to service, you sacrifice real quality - genuine human interaction - in favor of control.”
-John H. Fleming, Ph. D. and Jim Asplund

“The number one reason for unethical corporate behavior is unrealistic expectations."
-Stephen M. R. Covey

“We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from others…ultimately, only God’s opinion of us matters.”
-Stanley J. Grenz

“In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.”
-Stephen M. R. Covey

“Striving for excellence in our work, whatever it is, is not only our Christian duty, but a basic form of Christian witness.”
-Ted Engstrom

"Principles are not invented by us or by society; they are the laws of the universe that pertain to human relationships and human organizations. They are part of the human condition consciousness and conscience. To the degree people recognize and live in harmony with such basic principals as fairness, equity, justice, integrity, honesty and trust, they move toward either survival and stability on the bone hand or disintegration and destruction on the other.”
-Principle Centered Leadership